Top 699 Idle Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.
Useless, idle, exploitative male chauvinist drone!
Idle man, chases after fairy tales.
I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.
The public don't want prisoners lying about being idle.
It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle.
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.
The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.
The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.
Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.
Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.
Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
I call that man idle who might be better employed.
I would rather be sick than idle.
I hate being idle - there are still so many things I want to do.
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.
Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.
I am a complete workaholic and hate sitting idle.
Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.
It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
Idle hands make fretful minds.
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney.
The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter.
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.
Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.
There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.
Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!
On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.
A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.
The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.
Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.
