Quotes About Idle

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.

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

Of course he should be punished for doing so! I daresay he has not enough employment. One must remember that he has been used to work and should be made to do so now. It is not at all good for anyone to be perfectly idle.' 'Very true, ma'am,' agreed Mr Beaumaris meekly. Miss Tallant was not deceived. She looked sharply up at him, and bit her lip, saying after a moment: 'We are speaking of Jemmy!' 'I hoped we were,' confessed Mr Beaumaris.

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one's self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

I had so much free time that free time was meaningless.

This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and it's object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science.

Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard. Huckleberry was cordially hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town, because he was idle and lawless and vulgar and bad—and because all their children admired him so, and delighted in his forbidden society, and wished they dared to be like him.

Should we sit with idle hands because the consequences of an act are never quite to be foreseen, and hence all action is evil?

which didn't do much of anything

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

He rose late. He was recklessly extravagant and a notorious womaniser. The King was never a cipher. But well before his world was clouded by illness and insanity his capacity for public business was limited. He was idle, slow-witted and easily bored.

You're not bothering me. I'm not doing anything." Well, I was breathing, and my heart was beating. But the rest of me wasn't busy.

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

Men come in three sizes: small, medium, and extremely fucked up.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

Inte stort dugde han till: han hade mest av allt lust att sova och äta, och därnäst tyckte han om att ställa till odygd.

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

Miss Erstwhile: "It is such a relief, Mr. Nobley, to already know that you find this exercise vulgar and your partner unworthy. It saves us the idle chitchat." Mr. Nobley: "And yet you chat away.

Time is just going on and on .But I still here Idle just Waiting for someone and nothing else

I think maybe it is true that the idle mind is the Devil's workshop.