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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
Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.
— Eric Idle
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
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
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
An idle mind is a devil's workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.
— Anurag Shourie
The idle always have a mind to do something.
— Luc De Clapiers
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.
— John Keats
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
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
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
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 used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.
— Eric Idle
Idle time is the devil's play.
— Mark Dayton
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!
— Eric Idle
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
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 heartIt'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
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
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