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 is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha 
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If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.
Lisa Marie Presley
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mohandas Gandhi
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
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As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
Jan Schakowsky
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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
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How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
John Aubrey
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin
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