Quotes of Idle - somelinesforyou

“ People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. ”

- Bob Hope

“ The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. ”

- Hilaire Belloc

“ A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now. ”

- Omar Khayyam

“ If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love. ”

- Ovid

“ Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion. ”

- Will Rogers

“ If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed. ”

- Socrates

“ As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ Determine never to be idle…It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ It's no rest to be idle. ”

- Paul Peel

“ Luck is the idol of the idle. ”

- Unknown

“ Poetry should only occupy the idle. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. ”

- Arthur Brisbane

“ Satan always finds some mischief for idle hands to do. ”

- Isaac Watts

“ Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ That man is idle who can do something better. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The idle always have a mind to do something. ”

- Marquis de Vauvenargues

“ The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further. ”

- Sir Heneage Ogilvie

“ When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results… not great results, but enough to encourage me. ”

- Edgar Watson Howe

“ I'm homosexual… How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. ”

- Jean Genet

“ Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death. ”

- Martin Luther

“ The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas. ”

- Ralph Hodgson

“ The desire of the lazy kill him; for his hands refuse to labor. ”

- Bible

“ People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals — that is, goals that do not inspire them. ”

- Anthony Robbins
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