Top 1200 Idle Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.

Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for exchange, and cost of transport, over a considerable distance. Money represents a storage battery when idle, and a generalized mode of the conversion of energy when it is in motion, with a function of equating time and space.

An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

I have had my share of twiddling my thumbs while sitting idle at home

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.

The public don't want prisoners lying about being idle.

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

I am a complete workaholic and hate sitting idle.

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.

In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable.

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous number of good books waiting to be read, leaving little time for frivolity. My personal list of must-read books presents a daunting challenge; I can't even imagine the pressure our head librarian must be under.

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

I hate being idle - there are still so many things I want to do.

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?

God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

If I sit idle for one day, I feel 24 hours of my life are wasted.

Useless, idle, exploitative male chauvinist drone!

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.