Quotes About Idle

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

I like to unwind by doing nothing. If I do get a day, I just like to vegetate and laze around.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

by nature and by choice, i am extremely indolent.

a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

I'm not feeling very worky today.

An Idle youth, a needy Age.

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

Mary suppressed both a smile and a delightful suspicion that teaching might not be the worst way to spend the idle hours between breakfast and society.

War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a game of it... as it stands now it's the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

I have never done a stroke of work in my life.

sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the notion that one is discovering the past when really one is inventing it, using a guidebook as a scenario of swift notations.

I stopped simply to look around, in the idle curiosity that is available to any person with a car in Mexico and no particular place to go.

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.

She spent her idle time conceiving of musicals that would never be. It was the only medium that could properly express our true madness and hypocrisy---our collective ability to sit in a theater watching lunatics sing nonsense while the world outside burns.

The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call "philosophy" - most of which is pure nonsense.

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound. There is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain'.

The More I Rest The More I Go In VAIN

I'm just lazy.

To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.