Quotes About Idle

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

If I were on a committee, I'd be wasting my time.

I'm like, 'Man, if I'm going to have this idle time, I might as well be in school, do something positive where I'm not just wasting my prime years and not getting something else in return.' If I'm in school and training, that's OK. I did that in college. It worked.

The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care for our families.

My father passed away in 1994 and I cancelled all my plans. After I lost him, I didn't know what to do and sat idle for many days. I got frustrated and angry for even little things.

Gossiping and squawking for no reason is really pointless.

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is absolutely nothing else to do.

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

Word For The Day BOONDOGGLE (BOON dahg'uhl) n. A pointless project. Work of no value, done merely to appear busy. Alternate Word ICKY (IK ee) adj. Very distasteful; disgusting.

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Her family held strongly that for daughters to read in the daytime was to be idle. Well, if it was, thought Ingeborg lifting her head, that head that drooped so apologetically at home, with the defiance that distance encourages, then being idle was a blessed thing and the sooner one got away to where one could be it, uninterruptedly, the better.

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.

I like doing nothing. I like sitting on the couch.

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

run. He is spoilt and his ambition is the work of an idle and over-reaching mother.

The idle life I lead Is like a pleasant sleep, Wherein I rest and heed The dreams that by me sweep.

Don't make much ado about nothing.

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

Aye. There's time enough between battles to knit a dozen scarves and a hundred stockings, as well I know." He gave a little bark of laughter. "I thought soldiers spent their idle time dicing and wenching." She gave a surprisingly girlish giggle.

Concepts of mercy and tolerance were rich people's luxuries, playthings for idle minds.

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.