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Quotes About Idle

An IDOL is someone who is never IDLE. An idle mind is the devil's workshop,but an idol's mind is a creative office
~ Unknown
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, farseeing be.
~ Herbert Spencer
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, farseeing benevolence.
~ Herbert Spencer
I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.
~ Morgan Freeman
our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.
~ Unknown
Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
~ Vernor Vinge
despite a huge idle standing army—sponsored, of course, by military-industrial interests in the United States—that could just as well be out in the weary countryside planting new trees.
~ Peter Matthiessen
Plus laid aussi qu'un parking
~ Hugh Laurie
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.
~ Stephen Merchant
Taxes for people with too much damned time on their hands.
~ Lois Greiman
It's not pregame'n if you have absolutely nowhere to go & nothing to do afterwards. Thats just simply gettin drunk & being a loser
~ Unknown
At the same time, he must struggle hard to acquire these things — firstly, knowledge, and secondly, wealth. It is his duty, and if he does not do his duty, he is nobody. A householder who does not struggle to get wealth is immoral. If he is lazy and content to lead an idle life, he is immoral, because upon him depend hundreds. If he gets riches, hundreds of others will be thereby supported.
~ Vivekananda
The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
~ Unknown
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.
~ Matthew Arnold
thought. Lumpish. And the word came to me: feckless.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Little tube of mighty pow'r, Charmer of an idle hour, Object of my warm desire.
~ Isaac Hawkins Browne
For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.
~ Isaac Watts
In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy, too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
~ Isaac Watts
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
~ Jean Genet
How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
~ John Aubrey
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.
~ Oscar Wilde
I'm just generally lazy.
~ Dave McCary
When not working, my days are lazy.
~ Farhan Akhtar
I'm really lazy!
~ Cate Blanchett