| "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 |
| "As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle." »Samuel Johnson |
| "The idle mind knows not what it wants." »Ennius |
| "Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "All universal moral principles are idle fantasies." »Marquis de Sade |
| "The Devil finds work for idle hands." »Proverb |
| "To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious." »Samuel Butler |
| "The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle." »G. C. Lichtenberg |
| "There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all." »Sydney Smith |
| "Regrets are idle yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently." »Charles Dudley Warner |
| "One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do." »Victor Hugo |
| "Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good." »Thomas a Kempis |
| "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 |
| "Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving." »William Shakespeare |
| "Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult." »Samuel Johnson |
| "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 |
| "A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor." »Victor Hugo |
| "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 no bring forth in the agitation." »Michel de Montaigne |
| "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 |
| "All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered." »Mort Crim |
| "Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel." »George Du Maurier |
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