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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But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.
Pia Zadora 
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
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It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant H. McGill
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I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
Jean Genet
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Victor Hugo
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts
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