Idle Quotes - Page 2

As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

Idle hands make fretful minds.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

I live an idle burden to the ground.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

Idleness is the key of beggary.

How sweet and sacred idleness is!