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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
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
The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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
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
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 belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.
— Raymond Chandler
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
Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.
— Anthony Burgess
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 showStrengthens 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
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 bettercheap 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
Someday, god knows when, I will stop this absurd, self-pitying, idle, futile despair, and I will begin to think again.
— Sylvia Plath
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
The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.
— Walter Bagehot