Quotes by Idle I am capable of being idle. Alexander McCall Smith idle capable A truce to idle phrases! Aristophanes truce idle phrases Be ashamed to catch yourself idle. Benjamin Franklin idle ashamed But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING = Boris Pasternak idle world years Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle Charles Spurgeon industrious idle temptation Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them. Charles Spurgeon idle devil men The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status. Dorothy L. Sayers badges idle social If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip more than people expect. Eric Idle idle eric people And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better? Fyodor Dostoevsky idle wells suffering An idle head is a boxe for the winde. George Herbert idle Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing. George Herbert idle longing bees Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art. Gustav Klimt idle late art Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle. Gustav Mahler idleness idle remains I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it. Helen Cresswell idleness idle devil To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. Henry David Thoreau idle money done Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains. Horace Greeley deficiency idle brain I live an idle burden to the ground. Homer idleness idle burden Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice! Jean-Baptiste Say idle theory practice How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited. Jefferson Davis idle rights natural How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe! John Aubrey idle curiosity would-be 123»