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
Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.
Juan Ruiz
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin 
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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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We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.
Marc Morial
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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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To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.
Jupiter Hammon
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
Jean Genet
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Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
E. Y. Harburg
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