Idleness rusts the mind.
Idle folks lack no excuses.
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant H. McGill
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Khalil Gibran
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
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin
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
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Henry David Thoreau
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought.
There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
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. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Victor Hugo
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
Ovid
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Samuel Johnson
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel Johnson
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Gustav Mahler
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Marquis de Sade
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas a Kempis
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
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Arthur Rimbaud
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
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 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
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
Harlan Coben
The idle always have a mind to do something.
Luc de Clapiers
Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
Paul Getty
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Charles Dudley Warner
I am capable of being idle.
Alexander McCall Smith
Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.
Juan Ruiz
Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.
Tom Hodgkinson
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
Albrecht Durer
We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.
Evo Morales
Idle time is the devil's play.
Mark Dayton
When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
E. Y. Harburg
Mark Dayton
When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
E. Y. Harburg