Idle Quotes

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to ...

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson
📅︎ Mar 05
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"Idleness is not doing not...

"Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything." — Floyd Dell
📅︎ Feb 11
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No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitutio...

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely...Arthur Conan Doyle
📅︎ Jan 26
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"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themsel...

"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
📅︎ Oct 20
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“A book lying idle on a she...

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.” ―Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
📅︎ Jul 25
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"Far from idleness being the ro...

"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good." — Soren Kierkegaard
📅︎ Jun 13
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"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themsel...

"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
📅︎ Mar 10
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"Idleness is not doing not...

"Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything." — Floyd Dell
📅︎ Apr 13
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"Since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fai...

"Since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days." - Elliot Rodger
📅︎ Mar 11
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“I am ha...

“I am hard at work being idle”
📅︎ Mar 05
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"A forecast is something you expect, and wea...

"A forecast is something you expect, and weather is something you get. I dont see the point in idle expectation" -Magda Rakovic (Beholder 2)
📅︎ Sep 12
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"The real troubles in your life are apt to be things ...

"The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday."-sunscreen song
📅︎ Sep 16
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"A little knowledge that acts is ...

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - Khalil Gibran
📅︎ Apr 04
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"Idle living turns me into an idiot. I can’t afford t...

"Idle living turns me into an idiot. I can’t afford to get stupid. I’ve already been irritating. I’ve used up my passes on personality flaws." - Goodbye, Mr. Nothing
📅︎ Apr 01
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The devil will fi...

The devil will find work for idle hands to do. - Morrissey.
📅︎ Nov 04
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'Wedged as we are between two eter...

'Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.' Anthony Burgess
📅︎ May 23
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"The earth is given as a common stock for men to labor and to live on ... Wherever...

"The earth is given as a common stock for men to labor and to live on ... Wherever in any country there are idle lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right." - Thomas Jefferson.
📅︎ Apr 22
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"Idleness is the beginning ...

"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues." - Franz Kafka, writer
📅︎ Jul 28
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"If life seems jolly rotten, there's so...

"If life seems jolly rotten, there's something you've forgotten, and that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing" -Eric Idle
📅︎ Mar 09
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Thank God every morning that you have something to do that day which must b...

Thank God every morning that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and to do your best will breed in you a hundred virtues which the idle never know. - Charles Kingsley
📅︎ Apr 24
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"There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I...

"There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all." - Sydney Smith
📅︎ Mar 19
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“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the tre...

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” – John Lubboc
📅︎ Apr 10
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“Life is not long, and too much of it...

“Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation on how it should be spent.” ~ Samuel Johnson
📅︎ Jan 08
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"A little knowledge that acts is...

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” -Khalil Gibran
📅︎ Sep 08
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"It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were syste...

"It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving." - Edgar Friedenberg
📅︎ Mar 14
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to c...

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. - Thomas Jefferson
📅︎ Oct 11
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"I never remember feeling tired by work,...

"I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. ” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The Sign of Four)
📅︎ Feb 16
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“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to ...

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.” -Thomas Jefferson
📅︎ Oct 03
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"If life seems jolly rotten, there's som...

"If life seems jolly rotten, there's something you've forgotten, and that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing." - Eric Idle
📅︎ Nov 15
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"A little knowledge that acts is...

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." -Khalil Gibran
📅︎ Apr 15
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An idle mind...

An idle mind is the entrepreneur's workshop.
📅︎ Sep 04
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"If you are idle, be not s...

"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle." - Samuel Johnson
📅︎ Apr 24
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(On gay marriages) "It's a...

(On gay marriages) "It's about time they suffered too." (Eric Idle. Source: imdb.com)
📅︎ Nov 23
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