Top Idle Quotes
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
Robert Dale Owen
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock.
William Emerson
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson 
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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
Albrecht Durer
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To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
Philip Kaufman
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.
Jon Lovitz
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Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas a Kempis
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Barbara Johnson
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