Quotes of: Idleness Keyword

Evil thoughts often come from idleness.

Gaelic

Idleness moves so slowly that it will be overtaken by misery.

Malagasy

A woman never thoroughly cares for her lover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you have snapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that she begins to smile upon you.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Idle men tempt the devil; the devil tempts all others.

Turkish

The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.

Idle Thursday

It is only idle people who can find time for everything.

French

Virtue never goes far without the company of idleness.

Jamaican

The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil.

Saudi Arabian

The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil.

Turkish

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Anne Baxter

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

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

E. Y. Harburg

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Benjamin Franklin

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "th...

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

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

Leo Rosten

A young man idle, an old man needy.

English

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

Samuel Smiles

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

Mary

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

George Borrow

There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhoo...

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow