Top 36 Quotes About Idle Hands
#1. Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.
Holly Black
#2. You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil.
Walter E. Williams
#3. In works of labour,
or of skill,
I would be busy, too;
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts
#5. You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.
Ivan Bunin
#6. Believe me, I understand how fiendishly the Internet can tempt a body to indulge in diversion from one's responsibilities, more commonly known as iniquity. Idle hands are never the devil's workshop more than when those recumbent mitts are resting upon a computer keyboard.
Nick Offerman
#7. Busy hands and idle minds have knitted many a sweater; Busy minds and idle hands have knitted many a brow.
Maryrose Wood
#8. I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be the guy making it all happen.
Corey Taylor
#10. Although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.
Amy Sedaris
#11. idle hands and mind led to loss of self-respect and eventually to
S.K. Epperson
#14. The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#15. Therefore with idle hands and head I sit
In late December before the fire's daze
Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.
Allen Tate
#16. That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.
Henry Ford
#17. Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.
Joe Queenan
#19. As by knowing one tool of iron, dear one, we come to know all things made out of iron: that they differ only in name and form, while the stuff of which all are made is iron- so through that spiritual wisdom, dear one, we come to know that ll of life is one.
Eknath Easwaran
#20. Director Park asking that if there was a pocket on one side of the piece of clothing then there should be a pocket on the other side. They were a little uncomfortable to wear, yes, because there were a lot of tight, high-waisted things so it was great at the end of the day to slip into some pajamas!
Mia Wasikowska
#22. What is a champion but a guy that didn't quit? ... Life is a continuous experience. You only fail by not learning.
Renzo Gracie
#23. Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.
Keeley Hawes
#25. The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident ... ', the US will be rather pissed off
Eric Idle
#26. The companies in our examples started with a mutual recognition of the power of collaboration and strong commitment to make it work.
Reuben Slone
#27. 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
#28. we consulted the guide-books and were rejoiced to know that there were no sights in Odessa to see; and so we had one good, untrammeled holyday on our hands, with nothing to do but idle about the city and enjoy ourselves.
Mark Twain
#29. Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to whom we have nothing to say off our hands, and sometimes even ourselves.
Etienne Bonnot De Condillac
#30. I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe.
Israel Horovitz
#31. Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#32. There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#33. It's much easier to make jokes about not having kids.
Jen Kirkman
#34. Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Jim Bishop
#35. God is asking you to take care of this special place. He says: If a man is lazy, the rafters sag; if his hands are idle, the house leaks (Ecclesiastes 10:18).
Jim George
#36. The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.
Joel Fuhrman
