Idle Quotes
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
Walter Bagehot
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
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…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...
George Q. Cannon
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time
George Shaw
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
Albert Einstein
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I do prefer theater. The whole process of film is just so tedious. You`re there for 18 hours a day, there`s so much idle time. You just burn out. Also, there isn`t the camaraderie you get in the theater.
Sam Rockwell
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You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he be disabled:) for the labors of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers
John Smith
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When the idle poor become the idle rich, you`ll never know just who is who, or which is which.
E.Y. Harburg
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When the idle poor become the idle rich, you`ll never know just who is who, or which is which.
E.Y. Harburg
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We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.
Alvin Sykes
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To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
Philip Kaufman
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Stevenson
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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
Andrea Flynn
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Prayer is not an old woman`s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mohandas Gandhi
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It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Alan Adler
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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
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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
Aiesha Harper
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Arthur Rimbaud
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Amy Sawyer
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I`m homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It`s a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
Jean Genet
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
Jean Genet
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How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
Alicia Bell
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Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Gustav Mahler
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Alf Warkentin
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As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
Alger Boyer
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Marquis de Sade
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring for...
Adam Spence
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Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.
Homer
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