Top 77 Idle Life Quotes
#1. An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.
Thomas Brooks
#2. I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment for reflection or for the discharge of any other then the most immediate and pressing concerns.
Edward Rutledge
#3. An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
Lucan
#5. He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
Oscar Wilde
#6. I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.
Lee Radziwill
#7. I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.
Eric Idle
#8. We must be as satisfied to be powerless, idle and still before God, and dried up and barren when He permits it, as to be full of life, enjoying His presence with ease and devotion. The whole matter of our union with God consists in being content either way.
Jane Frances De Chantal
#9. And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.
Gautama Buddha
#10. Life's a piece of shit, when you look at it, life's a laugh and deat's a joke, it's true: You'll se it's all a show, keep'em laughing as you go, just remember that the last laugh is on YOU ... and ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE
Eric Idle
#11. The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#12. If you are idle, ask "why?" If you feel like life is boring for you, ask "why?" When you get into a disappointment, ask "why?" Even if you come out of all torments and disturbances, ask "why?
Israelmore Ayivor
#13. A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.
Michael Flanders
#14. The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether - very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be overtaken by the passive distractions of radio, but for the moment reading remained most people's principal method for filling idle time.
Bill Bryson
#15. Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.
Ovid
#16. Elvis saved my life when I was 13 or 14. He saved all our lives.
Eric Idle
#17. I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.
Eric Idle
#18. Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.
Eric Idle
#19. He turned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was in mortal sin, that his life had grown to be a tissue of subterfuge and falsehood.
James Joyce
#20. I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better
cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#21. Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#22. I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.
Eric Idle
#24. For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.
Kahlil Gibran
#25. No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
Eric Idle
#26. The Squire's life was quite as idle as his sons', but it was a fiction kept up by himself and his contemporaries in Raveloe that youth was exclusively the period of folly, and that their aged wisdom was constantly in a state of endurance mitigated by sarcasm.
George Eliot
#27. She saw the picture of idle fishing boats tied up at Peterhead; further gloom for Scotland and for a way of life that had produced such a strong culture. Fishermen had composed their songs; but what culture would a generation of computer operators leave behind them?
Alexander McCall Smith
#28. The artist is not born to a life of pleasure. He must not live idle; he has a hard work to perform, and one which often proves a cross to be borne.
Wassily Kandinsky
#29. Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
Alfred North Whitehead
#30. If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
Samuel Johnson
#31. EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will
Eliphas Levi
#32. To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.
Robert Silverberg
#33. As an idle mind either recalls its past or worries about its future, this Mr. Patil had sat indulged in his past. How beautiful his past life was, happy, lively and warm as the morning itself. It was a perfectly pictured cheerful life of a
farmer.
Ganesh Shiva Aithal
#34. It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?
William Shenstone
#35. In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.
Leopold Hartley Grindon
#36. In treading upon the ashes of dead men in Italy, Egypt - on the banks of the Bosphorus, one almost despairs to think how idle are the dreams and toils of this life, and were it not for the intellectual pleasure of knowing and learning, one would almost be damaged by travel in these historic lands.
William T. Sherman
#37. Life is not as idle ore,
But iron dug from central gloom,
And heated hot with burning fears,
And dipt in baths of hissing tears,
And batter'd with the shocks of doom,
To shape and use.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#38. How many of us even know what our default state of being is? Check yours at random times; reset it to positive, grateful, disciplined or faithful. Don't ever let it idle on negative, greedy, lax or doubtful.
Toni Sorenson
#39. Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.
Eric Idle
#40. You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.
Ivan Bunin
#41. Life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work.
Jerome K. Jerome
#42. The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#43. The idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he was leading for this laborious, pure, and socially delightful life.
Leo Tolstoy
#44. Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.
Eric Idle
#45. Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
#46. The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.
Kelly Moran
#47. Jelly-bean is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular- - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle
F Scott Fitzgerald
#48. Stop chasing another busy self to become. Your real self is idle waiting to be lived ... Go, take up your real self!
Israelmore Ayivor
#49. Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
Eric Idle
#50. God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.
Jim Elliot
#51. The mind never sleeps. Though the body can be idle, there shall always be something for the mind to do! Do something with your mind then!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#52. Time is just going on and on .But I still here Idle just Waiting for someone and nothing else
Amardeep Singh
#53. I used to be quite a big video game player at university and post-university in that weird moment in life before you have a proper job and you've got a lot of idle time.
Stephen Merchant
#55. Though time seems to expand or contract between idle and frantic moments, it passes the same in both: second by second. You can neither lose it or create it. Use it wisely.
Gavin Mills
#56. 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
#57. he would expatiate with great vehemence on the misery of idle and lazy habits; and would enforce upon them the necessity of an active life, by sending them supperless to bed. On
Charles Dickens
#58. Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
#59. Nothing remains idle and thrives. Life needs a moving force to prevent the devastating effects of stagnancy. That is why life employs change.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#60. Always look on the brighter side of life
Eric Idle
#61. In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.
Eraldo Banovac
#62. I think husbands are like tattoos
you should wait until you come across something you want on your body for the rest of your life instead of just wandering into a tattoo parlor on some idle Sunday and saying, 'I feel like I should have one of these suckers by now.
Sloane Crosley
#63. War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a game of it ... as it stands now it's the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous.
Leo Tolstoy
#64. Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.
Tom Hodgkinson
#65. My parents and grandparents did not tolerate idle thoughts or behavior. If the action did not have a purpose or lead you in a positive direction, their feeling was "why bother?" This is how I was built. This is why I refuse to fail.
Carlos Wallace
#66. Curiosity, for which nothing is closed off, and idle talk, for which everything is supposedly understood, provide persons with the guarantee of a 'life' which, supposedly, is genuinely 'lively'.
Steven Foulds
#67. 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
#68. If during the day, a person did not do anything about his purpose and calling, he did nothing at all
Sunday Adelaja
#69. Every key belongs to a lock, and every lock contains a secret. My mind churns for the truth that you hold. Why are you here? I never desired this for you, yet I am curious to know. Is this idle gaud the answer I seek, or is it merely the old memory of a dream I thought I once lived?
H.S. Crow
#70. 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
#71. Moments without you made me realize How Idle I am in my life
Seema Gupta
#73. Whatever work you undertake to do in your lifetime, it is very important that first you have a passion for it - you know, get excited about it - and second, that you have fun with it. That's important. Otherwise, you see, your work becomes nothing but an idle chore. Then, you hate the life you live.
Julius Sumner Miller
#74. The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.
Benjamin Franklin
#75. I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.
Margaret Atwood
#76. As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#77. To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.
Edward Gibbon
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