Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.
When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.
Poetry should only occupy the idle.
Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.
Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop. ’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
Why do you think the lottery is so popular? Do you think anybody would play if the super payoff was a job on the night shift in a meat-packing plant? People play it so if they win they can be rich and idle. Like I told you years ago - if work is so good, how come they have to pay us to do it?
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.
Hope is not an idle term. Hope is the reality that can and does reveal itself to us at God's choice hour. To hope is to know the secret of achievement.
It is. . . idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as Judaism contradicts Islam-they are absolutely and irresolvably conflicting views. Unless, that is, science is obliged to change its fundamental nature.
Idle hands are the devil's playthings.
I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.
And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?
Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering
A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.