A Quote by Socrates

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

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Socrates
Greek - Philosopher
469 BC - 399 BC

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

Socrates

It is better to be idle than employed in ill.

Norm MacDonald

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

David J. Schwartz

There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.

Aldo Leopold

When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.

Yip Harburg

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

John Darnielle

No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.

Ignatius of Loyola

There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.

Gautama Buddha

Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.

George Carlin

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

E. Y. Harburg

Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it on riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?

Samuel Gompers

History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them

John Locke

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

Leo Rosten

The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.