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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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"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence." »Benjamin Franklin
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"If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle." »Samuel Johnson
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"The idle mind knows not what it wants." »Ennius
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"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle." »Samuel Johnson
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"If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle." »Samuel Johnson
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"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." »Thomas Jefferson
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"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious." »Samuel Butler
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"#3532. The law neither does nor requires idle acts." »California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
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"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The Devil finds work for idle hands." »Proverb
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"He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion." »Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
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"All universal moral principles are idle fantasies." »Marquis de Sade
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"To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle." »G. C. Lichtenberg
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"All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller." »Isak Dinesen, (Karen Blixen)
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"Regrets are idle yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently." »Charles Dudley Warner
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"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
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"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
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"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
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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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"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
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"Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good." »Thomas a Kempis
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"Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good." »Thomas a Kempis
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"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
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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 Bernard Shaw
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"It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words." »Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
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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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