Quotes About Idle

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.

passing: the righteous, fair-skinned Nephites, led by Nephi, and their bitter adversaries, the Lamanites, as the followers of Laman were known. The Lamanites were "an idle people, full of mischief and subtlety," whose behavior was so annoying to God that He cursed the whole lot of them with dark skin to punish them for their impiety.

Two empty hours were a sinus in which infections bred.

The truth? I saw an artist locking herself in the same prison cell that had almost killed her. Boring is also dangerous. Idle hands, et cetera.

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

Luck is the idol of the idle.

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

He who has nothing to do, scatters and gathers.

sages leave speculation to the idle, and contemplate Nature.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

An idle genius is an oxymoron.

There is always a reason, a primary reason to start with. But a man who faces such dangers as the unknown world still offers must have, within himself, another compulsion. An agitation, as Nicolas de Nicolay would put it. Why should it not be spoken of?" "To fill an idle moment?" Chancellor said. He refused the lead. "To learn," Lymond said.

My idle curiosity might lead to something more official, if the lieutenant feels his work is being hindered by an officious, small-minded, self-important bureaucrat. Not you, of course. I speak in general terms only.

About Nora Broad} Miss Marple: Was she a girl that did well in school and all that? Mrs. Black: No she wasn't, heh... She was idle, and she wasn't too clever to books either. No, she was "all for the boys." From the time she was twelve years old, onwards.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

An idle, wandering mind is not the devil's playground, as the Puritans believed, but a garden of rejuvenation, growth, and contemplation.

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

An idle mind is not a devil's workshop but a wanderlust

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

But the weak who constantly arouse the pity of humanitarians and philanthropists are the shiftless, the imprudent, the negligent, the impractical, and the inefficient, or they are the idle, the intemperate, the extravagant, and the vicious. Now

Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!