All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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.
Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.
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.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
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.
I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, idle time is the devil's workshop. I like to focus on something.
Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
It is idle to await unanimity.
We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
I don't know if I can relax. Relax, I can't do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy.
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.
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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.
New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
I used to be quite a big video game player at university and post-university in that weird moment in life before you have a proper job and you've got a lot of idle time.
It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
