Idle Quotes - Page 14

• The question 'Who am I?' is not an idle one. How you answer the question will determine how you live the rest of your life. It will determine the quality of your life.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Attitude, Quality

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• These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.

  Noam Chomsky

  Action, Speculation

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• Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.

  Chandra Wilson

  Mom, Friday, Monday

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

  Alan Dershowitz

  School, Needs, Taught

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• There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Long, Interesting

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.48, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.

  Waylon Jennings

  Mean, Eagles, Rumor

  Song: The Eagle, Album: The Eagle, 1990

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• Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

  Adam Kinzinger

  Party, Illinois, New Day

  "Kinzinger topples Manzullo in Illinois" by Alex Isenstadt and David Catanese, www.politico.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.

  Augustus William Hare

  Wise, Light, Useless

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• How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

  Augustus William Hare

  God, World, Certain

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.169

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• It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Struggle, Use

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• 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

  Art, Late, Plenty

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• I am capable of being idle.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Capable

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• To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Mean, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.199

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• It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fighting, Ignorant, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2972, Delphi Classics

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• For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Men, Practice

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• Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Often Is, Evil

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.312

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• Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you are not a burden to anyone, and indeed can give to others, as St. Paul the Apostle advises (cf. I Thess. 2:9; Eph. 4:28). In this manner you will overcome the demon of listlessness and drive away all the desires suggested by the enemy; for the demon of listlessness takes advantage of idleness. 'Every idle man is full of desires' (Prov. 13:4 LXX).

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Night, Men

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• Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Life, Lying, Careers

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• If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stopping, Laziness, Ruins

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.33

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• Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Busy, Indolence

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• The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Latin, Book, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Curiosity, Importance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.159, Penguin

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• If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.

  William Shakespeare

  Eggs, Shells, Eating

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.170, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Brother, Growth

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.447, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Luxury, Soul

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3191, Delphi Classics

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