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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?
As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out.
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.
How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.
Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.
When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
My mom said I was not going to be an idle child, so I had things to do every day after school.
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.
How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
My day starts at 5 A.M. and gets over at 10:30 P.M. Its a long day but I love it... I can't sit idle.
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
It's not an idle boast that the British Army is, man for man, probably the best fighting force in the world.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
I will call out the lazy, the idle, and the ignorant. I will support the hard working, the industrious, and the law.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
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.
I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.
I am one of those people who cannot sit idle at home; I would get depressed. I have a constant hunger to create and to learn.
As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time - or go bankrupt.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.