Quotes by Idle I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one. John Darnielle idle settings should An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before. Jonathan Swift idle weight reason People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle. Leo Rosten idle curiosity people An idle life always produces varied inclinations. Lucan idle inclination produce Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious. Mahatma Gandhi purification idle purity The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators. Matthew Crawford spectators idle doe A creative mess is better than idle tidiness. Michael J. Fox idle mess creative All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Nick Cave bad-ideas idle ideas It is better to be idle than employed in ill. Norm MacDonald idle laziness ill These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle. Noam Chomsky idle speculation action If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. Polybius idle tales left Arguments derived from probabilities are idle. Plato idle probability argument The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. Plato idle drones bees The idle mind knows not what it wants. Quintus Ennius idle mind want That man is idle who can do something better. Ralph Waldo Emerson idle laziness men Be not solitary, be not idle Robert Burton idle solitary It is idle to await unanimity. Robert Dale Owen idle unanimity To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. Robert Louis Stevenson idle strong identity No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Samuel Smiles sober idle law Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. Samuel Johnson idle happiness «123»