Top 25 Idle Quotes of 54 - Page 3

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

Gustav Mahler

Idle, Remains, Idleness

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

William Wilberforce

Pain, Taken, Idle

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Army, Labor, Idleness

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.

Pablo Picasso

Art, People, Idlers

Idle time is the devil's play.

Mark Dayton

Play, Devil, Idle Time

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

J. G. Holland

Men, Idleness

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Hesiod

Disgrace, Idleness

Hesiod, Thomas Alan Sinclair (1966). “Works and Days”, p.29, Georg Olms Verlag

When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.

Yip Harburg

Rich, Poor, Idle

"Finian's Rainbow (When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich)". Book by Yip Harburg and Fred Saidy, 1947.

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.

Washington Irving

Men, Sloth, Idlers

Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more”, p.1110, e-artnow

It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.

St. Jerome

Play, Ass, Idle

St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

Be not solitary, be not idle

Robert Burton

Solitary, Idle

The Anatomy of Melancholy pt. 3, sec. 4 (1621 - 1651) See Samuel Johnson 97

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

Plato

Argument, Probability, Idle

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

Jonathan Swift

Weight, Reason, Idle

Jonathan Swift (1735). “The Works of J.S., D.D., D.S.P.D.”, p.303

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Suffering, Idlers, Leisure

Busy idleness urges us on.

Horace

Busy, Urges, Idleness

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 384-85, Epistles, Book I, XI. 28, 1922.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Psychology, Vices, Idleness

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Faults, Excuse, Idleness

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.

Ebenezer Elliott

Earning, Pockets, Idlers

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

Charles Spurgeon

Men, Devil, Idle

Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.5, Whitaker House

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

William Faulkner

Virtue, Idleness

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom, Oppression, Idleness

In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.

Tom Hodgkinson

Song, Lying, Idlers

"Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.