The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humour of your idleness . . .
when man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle.
Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make.
... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
I used to be quite a big video game player at university and post-university in that weird moment in life before you have a proper job and you've got a lot of idle time.
My day starts at 5 A.M. and gets over at 10:30 P.M. Its a long day but I love it... I can't sit idle.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working.
When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hostility to this world, came over him...It was all drowned in the sea of cheerful common labor. God had ...
