Quotes of: Idle Keyword

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

John Aubrey

Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out.

Henry J. Heinz

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

Jean Genet

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

Nick Cave

Time is just going on and on .But I still here Idle just Waiting for someone and nothing else

Amardeep Singh

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

William Wilberforce

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Benjamin Franklin

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Albrecht Durer

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Miguel de Cervantes

Moments without you made me realize How Idle I am in my life

Seema Gupta

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Thomas Dekker

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.

Tom Hodgkinson

When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long.

Kevin McCloud

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

Wavy Gravy

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Thomas a Kempis

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Arthur Rimbaud

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.

George H. White

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'

Harlan Coben

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

Jan Schakowsky