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Idle time is the devil's play, -- Mark Dayton
Idle time is the devil's play. -- Mark Dayton
All universal moral principles are idle fancies. -- Marquis de Sade
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. -- Khalil Gibran
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. -- Benjamin Franklin
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. -- Renata Adler
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
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. -- Charles Kingsley
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
Idle hands make fretful minds. -- Shelley Shepard Gray
An Idle youth, a needy Age. -- George Herbert
Idle man, chases after fairy tales... -- Rumi
Idle hands are the devil's playthings. -- Benjamin Franklin
Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department. -- Robert Stacy McCain
Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them. -- Charles Spurgeon
Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do. -- Thomas Pynchon
Moments without you made me realize How Idle I am in my life -- Seema Gupta
I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. -- Raymond Chandler
It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell. -- Henry Reed
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. -- Arthur Rimbaud
Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make. -- Susan Ertz
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. -- Charles Bradlaugh
Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog. -- Isabel Yosito
I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like. -- Lana Del Rey
It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable. -- Raymond Williams
When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing? -- John C. Dvorak
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured. -- Carlo Collodi
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery. -- Victor Hugo
Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man. -- Francis Quarles
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind. -- William Penn
If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip more than people expect. -- Eric Idle
The devil finds work for idle hands. -- Henry David Thoreau
That man is idle who can do something better. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. -- Henry Miller
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love. -- Ovid
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. -- Isaac Watts
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. -- Samuel Johnson
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. -- Barbara Johnson
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. -- Charles Dudley Warner
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. -- William Shakespeare
As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious. -- William Wilberforce
Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out. -- Henry J. Heinz
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. -- Albrecht Durer
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. -- Samuel Johnson
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. -- Bryant H. McGill
When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which. -- E. Y. Harburg
Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working. -- Bill Gates
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. -- Samuel Johnson
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. -- Benjamin Franklin
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. -- Victor Hugo
[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
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. -- Esha Gupta
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated. -- Nick Cave
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. -- Gautama Buddha
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. -- Gautama Buddha
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
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
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
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
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. -- Muhammad
You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled:) for the labours of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers. -- John Smith
In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable. -- Q-Tip
For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played. -- Miroslav Volf
Love does not stay idle. -- St. Catherine of Siena
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. -- Samuel Johnson
I'm not very happy idle. -- Harlan Coben
A truce to idle phrases! -- Aristophanes
I am capable of being idle. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Be not solitary, be not idle -- Robert Burton
Busy opinion is an idle fool. -- John Ford
It is idle to await unanimity. -- Robert Dale Owen
Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. -- Paul Getty
Be ashamed to catch yourself idle. -- Benjamin Franklin
Poetry should only occupy the idle. -- Lord Byron
Useless, idle, exploitative male chauvinist drone! -- Sue Limb
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle. -- Plato
An idle life always produces varied inclinations. -- Lucan
The idle brain is the devil's playground. -- Eric Lange
I would rather be sick than idle. -- Seneca the Younger
The idle man is the devil's cushion. -- Joseph Hall
Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness -- Jacqueline Carey
The idle mind knows not what it wants. -- Quintus Ennius
I live an idle burden to the ground. -- Homer
An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop. -- John Bunyan
A creative mess is better than idle tidiness. -- Michael J. Fox
The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators. -- Matthew Crawford
An idle head is a boxe for the winde. -- George Herbert
An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts. -- Dennis E. Adonis
The idle always have a mind to do something. -- Luc de Clapiers
Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing. -- George Herbert
On a mission your worst enemy is idle time. -- Nipsey Hussle
Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming. -- James Van Fleet
These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle. -- Noam Chomsky
Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter. -- Mose Allison
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man. -- Hesiod
The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend. -- Walter Bagehot
God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas. -- Ralph Hodgson
[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated. -- Anthony Daniels
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass. -- St. Jerome
Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Success has no idle hands; affords no legs at rest. -- Johnnie Dent Jr.
I call that man idle who might be better employed. -- Socrates
An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction. -- Thomas Brooks
The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment. -- George Stillman Hillard
One monster there is in the world, the idle man. -- Thomas Carlyle
Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you -- Hasan of Basra
It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle. -- Sri Chinmoy
It is better to be idle than employed in ill. -- Norm MacDonald
The meaning doesn't matterif it's only idle chatterof a transcendental kind. -- W.S. Gilbert
Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. -- E. V. Lucas
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love. -- Ovid
I think being idle is quite hard for me to do. -- Tatiana Maslany

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