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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

idle hands and mind led to loss of self-respect and eventually to — S.K. Epperson

Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best. — Eric Idle

Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. — Thomas Gray

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

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

What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG! — Eric Idle

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

Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist — Eric Idle

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

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

An idle mind is a devil's workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder. — Anurag Shourie

When I was 23 I started writing for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute's airtime. — 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

Although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop. — Amy Sedaris

He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep. — John Keats

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'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.' — Harlan Coben

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop. — John Bunyan

Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world. — Michael Bassey Johnson

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed? — Veronica Roth

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life. — Lee Radziwill

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

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

It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly. — Eric Idle

The idle man is the devil's cushion. — Joseph Hall

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

It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still. — Eric Idle

I think maybe it is true that the idle mind is the Devil's workshop. — Barbara Kingsolver

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad. — Eric Idle

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain. — Robert Southwell

I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit. — Eric Idle

I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain. — Eric Idle

Other people's tragedies should not be the subject of idle conversation. — Kate DiCamillo

Idle time is the devil's play. — Mark Dayton

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat! — Eric Idle

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit
In late December before the fire's daze
Punished by crimes of which I would be quit. — Allen Tate

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

At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'. — Eric Idle

The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind. — W.S. Gilbert

Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's. — George Carlin

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one's self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world. — Sarah Orne Jewett

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department. — Robert Stacy McCain

An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play. — Thomas Watson

Idle war of head versus heart
It's always this way
My head is weak it always speaks
Before I know what it will say — Death Cab For Cutie

I'm homosexual ... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. — Jean Genet

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

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

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