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That man is idle who can do something better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
— Samuel Johnson
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
— Samuel Johnson
No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.
— Robert Breault
The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.
— Benjamin Franklin
Idle men make mischief, especially idle men supplied with ale, whores, and weapons.
— Bernard Cornwell
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
They would sooner be dicing, drinking, and flicking, I don't doubt, but Lord Randyll believes in putting idle men to work.
— George R R Martin
Proper loafing requires company.One man lying about is being idle; two men lying about is a lunch break.
— Brandon Sanderson
All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The idle man is the devil's cushion.
— Joseph Hall
In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
— Thomas Carlyle
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.
— Charles Spurgeon
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.
— Samuel Johnson
An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.
— John Bunyan
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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
It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.
— Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
