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The artist is not born to a life of pleasure. He must not live idle; he has a hard work to perform, and one which often proves a cross to be borne. — Wassily Kandinsky

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal. — Octave Feuillet

She might be idle, and silent, and forgetful, - and what seemed more than all other privileges - she might be unhappy if she liked. — Elizabeth Gaskell

There's nothinng like an outsider's idle glance to make you conscious of your own environment. — Sue Grafton

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not. — Eric Idle

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it. — Eric Idle

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age. — Thomas Carlyle

Idle words. From foolish people. — Brandon Sanderson

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious. — Mahatma Gandhi

Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make. — Susan Ertz

An idle mind is just a playground, a place to roam and play and discover. — Dina Santorelli

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle — Charles Spurgeon

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. — Benjamin Franklin

Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness — Sunday Adelaja

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. — Robert Breault

An idle genius is an oxymoron. — James Thornton

And indeed, here I am posing an idle question of my own now: which is better - cheap happiness or sublime suffering? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Twiss. Free of vice and gossip and idle tales." As the indicator arrow hit "B," Joseph switched to — Martin Cruz Smith

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place. — Gore Vidal

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe? — Thomas Carlyle

I no longer think that laziness is all about being idle. I now know when I become lazy- when I stop learning new things, and cease to grow. — Assegid Habtewold

A truce to idle phrases! — Aristophanes

I've got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time. — Eric Idle

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. — Polybius

I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones. — Eric Idle

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. — Walter Bagehot

The idle always have a mind to do something. — Luc De Clapiers

Was that his name? I never had a chance to ask. He was too intent upon tearing out my throat for us to engage in idle chitchat. — John Connolly

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is. — Eric Idle

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. — Raymond Chandler

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing. — Will Self

I never pay any attention to figures. — Eric Idle

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. — Alfred North Whitehead

There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit, when I am in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been. — Charles Dickens

It is not by idle chance that I have come here. — Holly Weiss

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

Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm. — Gottfried Keller

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness. — Henry Ford

God did not intend for us to be idle and unproductive. There is dignity in work. — Billy Graham

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now. — Anthony Burgess

Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more? — Eric Idle

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest. — Isaac D'Israeli

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. — Barbara Jordan

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief. — Holly Black

I doubt you've been idle these last twenty-four hours, so tell me what I need to know and who I might have to kill to protect her. — Vanessa Kelly

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. — Barbara Johnson

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. — Henry Miller

I would love to get a place out in the country and spend my idle time just remodeling and planting seeds and watching them grow. — Joe Lando

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. — George Canning

The room was rococo. I had a strong sense of gilt. — Eric Idle

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains. — Horace Greeley

It is better to be idle than employed in ill. — Norm MacDonald

I'm a call-sheet junkie. I love being on set. So, the hardest thing for me is dealing with all this idle time. That's when I get into trouble. — Shia Labeouf

An idle mind is not a devil's workshop but a wanderlust — Subhasis Das

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs. — William Wordsworth

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength. — Gautama Buddha

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Stop chasing another busy self to become. Your real self is idle waiting to be lived ... Go, take up your real self! — Israelmore Ayivor

If during the day, a person did not do anything about his purpose and calling, he did nothing at all — Sunday Adelaja

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have. — Eric Idle

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered. — William Shakespeare

Idle men make mischief, especially idle men supplied with ale, whores, and weapons. — Bernard Cornwell

The idle mind knows not what it wants. — Quintus Ennius

A person content to be bland will never be anyone's first choice as a companion for an idle afternoon. — Nancy Moser

When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat. — Jim Hightower

Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them — John Locke

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it. — George Eliot

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy. — Eric Idle

How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe! — John Aubrey

Idle hands are the devil's playthings. — Benjamin Franklin

Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you — Hasan Of Basra

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited. — Jefferson Davis

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love. — Ovid

Don't let your principles sit idle on a plaque. Bring them to life. — Cheryl A. Bachelder

If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell. — William Shakespeare

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like. — Lana Del Rey

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan. — Jan Schakowsky

Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out. — Henry J. Heinz

Love does not stay idle. — St. Catherine Of Siena

Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. — James Hervey

The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living. — Nancy Spain

A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame. — Bodhidharma

I wiped my jaw with a forearm, half imagining that I could still feel the product of the quickie out back of the bar. — Kaden Brown

I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better
cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours. — Eric Idle

The two girls emanated an incorrigible idle inertia. — William Faulkner

It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance. — Arthur C. Clarke

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth. — Vance Havner

An idle life always produces varied inclinations. — Lucan

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

Someday, god knows when, I will stop this absurd, self-pitying, idle, futile despair, and I will begin to think again. — Sylvia Plath

These are the effects of doting age,
vain doubts and idle cares and over caution. — John Dryden

God doesn't want us to sit idle and simply enjoy His presence, he wants a close relationship with Him — Sunday Adelaja

True blessing comes in the dress of sweats, never delaying to wave bye to the excuses and procrastination. True blessing lies in hard work! — Israelmore Ayivor

Idle hands make fretful minds. — Shelley Shepard Gray

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens. — Eric Idle

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend. — Walter Bagehot