80 Idle Quotes for You to Enjoy

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. William Shakespeare

Lost Reputation Merit Most Without Got Idle Imposition False Oft Deserving

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. Khalil Gibran

Wisdom Knowledge Worth More Idle Than Infinitely Little Much Acts

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson

What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about? Lucy Larcom

Love Gossip Too Much Lose Think Too Sympathy Cares Others Worse Neighbor About Having Habit Through Self Absorb Idle Intellectually Curiosity Forget Which Interest Meaning Meaning Of Much Originate Sufferings Keeping

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. Benjamin Franklin

Silence Word Every Must Idle Account

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. Charles Kingsley

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mind Sit Changing Waves Color Idle Reverie Break Seashore Watch

My day starts at 5 A.M. and gets over at 10:30 P.M. Its a long day but I love it... I can't sit idle. Esha Gupta

Love Day Long Sit Starts Long Day Over Idle Gets

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground. Lisa Marie Presley

All universal moral principles are idle fancies. Marquis de Sade

Moral Moral Principles Principles Idle Fancy Universal

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. Jorge Luis Borges

Memory Solitude Walk Thinking Our Pleases Details Through Because Without Does Idle Just Cannot Suburbs Us Night

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body. Michael Merzenich

For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played. Miroslav Volf

Work God Faith Needs Game Business World Doctors Garbage Christian Rules Spheres Collectors Inserted Stay-At-Home Most Executives Idle Scientists Provide Artists Story Which Moms Dads Basic Christian Faith Played

I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect. Talulah Riley

Life You Injustice Respect Creative Integrity Honesty Everyday Life Thought Believe Everyday System Having Through Taking Stick Idle Encounter Contributing Being Against Then Stand Belief

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo

Man Thought Visible He Absorb Invisible Because Idle Labor

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. Adam Kinzinger

Day Party Nation Our Hoping New Economy New Day Idle Brand Brand New Improves Republican Republican Party Stand Illinois Tone Tonight Set

Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft's growth - if not its profit engine - stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too. Adam Lashinsky

Profit Too Spending Given Investors Droughts Over Alphabet Idle Causing Years Amazon Stock Microsoft Engine Products Suffered Growth

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once. Alan Dershowitz

Time Family Me Natural School Back Once Could Never Call Learned Although Idle Doing Came Same Going Taught Same Time Poor Then Working Many Things Need

I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be great if these ideas actually made an impact?' So when you start to see that idle fantasy intrude on the regular world... It's peculiar. Alan Moore

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. Alan Wilson

Rights Care Sit Our Rules We Cannot Unparalleled Ability Restrict Bottom Bottom Line Idle Line Families Cannot Regulations

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. Albrecht Durer

Art Man Evil Otherwise Himself Idle Happens Much Avoided

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