Quotes About Idle

The public don't want prisoners lying about being idle.

all cooperative schemes which provide equal remuneration to the skilled and industrious and the ignorant and idle must work their own downfall, For by this unjust plan they must of necessity eliminate the valuable members and retain only the improvident, unskilled and vicious.

To love Christ more," Elizabeth once said, "is the deepest need, the constant cry of my soul.... Out in the woods and on my bed and out driving, when I am happy and busy, and when I am sad and idle, the whisper keeps going up for more love, more love, more love!

Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle.

The entrenched interests of the regional nobility prevented the proper functioning of a government built upon ethical practice. While high-minded scholars often called for reforms, their memoranda carried little weight with an idle aristocracy.

There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.

I'm a big fan of not working.

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

for he had plenty of money and nothing to do, and Satan is proverbially fond of providing employment for full and idle hands. The poor fellow had temptations enough from without and from within, but he withstood them pretty well, for much as he valued liberty, he valued good faith and confidence more

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf

A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet; yet it leaves behind only bitterness and regret. In that, it resembles, surely, the pleasures of love.

The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.

I love doing just nothing in my free time.

Whatever it's actually been, I felt declassed; people who have not lazed away at least part of their time up to their twenty-fifth year are greatly to be pitied, for it's my belief that it's not the money you have earned that you take with you into your grave, but your idle time.

I don't look back with any pleasure at the sacrifices I made. I consider it time wasted. Whereas I do not think it time wasted to be idle, to dream, to play. Very much the contrary, I think.

Shiftless, lazy, and dadblasted tired

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

ANTRE  (A'NTRE)   [antre, Fr. antrum, Lat.]A cavern; a cave; a den. With all my travels history:Wherein of antres vast, and desarts idle,It was my hent to speak.Shakesp.Othello.

Razmatraju?i sav svoj život, uvidio je da je pogrešno postupio u svemu - u svemu. Život mu je bio, štono kažu, upropašten. Ali pošto on, kao prvo, nije mnogo ni vrijedio, nije bilo ni naro?itog razloga žaljenja. Razmišljaju?i na smrdljivoj sofi o stolje?ima, devetnaestom, šestnaestom, osamnaestom, pronašao je u posljednjem izreku koja mu se svidjela: Žalost je, gospodine, vrsta dokonosti.

Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.

People who know nothing about politics and its ill effects often discuss politics most excitedly at shops or public places. They are either totally idle or mentally dismantle.