logo

Quotes About Idle

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
~ William Shakespeare
It is amazing how much your brain races when you literally have nothing to do.
~ Jordan Sonnenblick
There will be a relationship between the punishment and change. As their bodies burn, a change will take place in their spirit forever and ever; for before the Lord of spirits none shall utter an idle word.
~ Joseph B. Lumpkin
The sharing economy is about making use of any idle resource out there. We do love seeing other sharing-economy companies flourish.
~ Joe Gebbia
How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
~ John Aubrey
I am an immature person, and I am very lazy, too.
~ Fawad Khan
I'm incredibly lazy!
~ Joaquin Phoenix
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
~ Bill Watterson
all severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. An important reminder for Upholders
~ Gretchen Rubin
There's so little to do except work that people wind up in a state of idle agitation that becomes fatalistic, as if there were nothing to be done about all this untapped energy.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
I no em vull referir a aquesta intel·ligència superficial, ornament balder dels esperits ociosos, ans a aquesta intel·ligència profunda i modera que s'aplica, per damunt de tot, a la consecució de coses útils.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
~ Polybius
I would love to get a place out in the country and spend my idle time just remodeling and planting seeds and watching them grow.
~ Joe Lando
Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told, and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment.
~ Bertrand Russell
You do not always have to be producing, creating, harvesting. Learn to be idle. Learn to rest.
~ Joyce Rupp
La pereza es la madre de todos los vicios.
~ Juan Eslava Galán
Deep down inside, I am lazy.
~ James May
Idle, profligate, ingrate. No one decent could ever want him.
~ Fay Weldon
How disconcerting it was to have an idle fantasy turn into real life attraction.
~ Fiona Wood
I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.
~ Bob Blaisdell
A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.
~ Bodhidharma
Time flies when you're a dolt.
~ Haruki Murakami
In context the computer programmers appeared idle. They sat quietly, stared into their screens and sipped cappuccinos. And yet they were by far the most important people on board Hyperion.
~ Michael Lewis