Quotes About Idle

The most idle person in the ordinary population can be seen often engaged in conversation & discussion during poll season as who will win the election. Stay away from such duffers

The most idle person in the ordinary population can be seen often engaged in discussion during poll as who will win the election. Stay away from such duffers

I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor, and at the expiration of that time I should feel fresh and vigorous enough to go right on in the same way for numerous more months.

I wish someone would give me some money for doing nothing.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.

In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable.

that thou be careful to prevent whatsoever is idle and impertinent: but especially, whatsoever is curious and malicious

On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

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

Once the somebody is already on the payroll, it doesn't cost us any more to have him be idle. Whether somebody produces parts or waits a few minutes doesn't increase our operating expense. But excess inventory . . . now that ties up a lot of money.

Victorians such as my grandmother always assumed, along with dreary old Isaac Watts who left us in 1748 and not one moment too soon, that Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.

Lazy But Talented

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. In proportion as you give it power it will inquire into everything, settle everything, meddle in everything.

An ordinary idle king on a constitutional throne will leave no mark on his time: he will do little good and as little harm.

Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

Killing time is not an easy job.

Idle time is the devil's play.

The only time a dog gets complimented is when he doesn't do anything.

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

It was presumptuous for one man to forgive another. That was the duty of God. For men to pretend such mercy was an idle pride and a lack of respect. He did not desire any such mercy for himself.