The Idle Man Quotes
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That man is idle who can do something better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.
— G.K. Chesterton
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler
— Samuel Johnson
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
— Orison Swett Marden
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
— Thomas Dekker
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
— Albrecht Durer
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
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
— Victor Hugo
The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Proper loafing requires company.One man lying about is being idle; two men lying about is a lunch break.
— Brandon Sanderson
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
Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
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
But nerves always festered in the stillness of waiting. Left at idle, the mind could make a coward of even the bravest man.
— D.J. Molles
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
