Top 40 Quotes About Idlers
#1. Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
Horace Greeley
#2. It is an unfortunate reality for innate idlers that our modern world requires one to hold a job to maintain a sustainable existence. Idling, I find, if immensely underrated, even vilified by some who see inactivity as the gateway for the Evil One.
J. Maarten Troost
#3. Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve
#5. All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
Tom Hodgkinson
#6. The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.
C.S. Lewis
#7. The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.
Tom Hodgkinson
#8. You will see that Charles set his sights high. Intelligent idlers always have, in order to justify their idleness to their intelligence.
John Fowles
#9. Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.
Plato
#10. Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#11. No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!
Vladimir Lenin
#12. Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx
#13. Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.
Horace Greeley
#15. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. There
Arthur Conan Doyle
#17. Debtors and idlers abounded in the colonial era, but failing in business was not so calamitous as falling from grace... In Early America, fear of failure loomed largest on Sunday. Monday morning dawned about the year 1800. By then, 'failure' meant an entrepreneurial failure.
Scott A. Sandage
#18. Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect.
Tom Hodgkinson
#19. The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.
Slobodan Milosevic
#20. London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#21. Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal differs so from yours that I would be wasting my time in trying to explain where my inclination drives me.
Dominique Fernandez
#22. In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.
Tom Hodgkinson
#23. Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
Edward Young
#24. Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.
Alexander Smith
#25. The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it's here now.
Richard Bandler
#26. When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
Larry Wall
#27. And if these men steal, if there is developing among them a suspicion and hatred of well-dressed, satisfied people, the reason is not to be sought in their origin nor in any tendency to weakness in their character.
John Steinbeck
#29. Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on earning you a living without you doing any more work on it. It's absolutely ideal for an idler.
Tom Hodgkinson
#30. Fear is supremely contagious, and its immediate reaction is to make one try to run away.
Primo Levi
#31. If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to everything. It's not like there's just me and then nothing.
Fiona Apple
#32. The moment you resist change, you resist existing past your current state of awareness.
Nikki Rowe
#33. My stuff is generally quite collage-y anyway. So it's sort-of suited to gathering raw materials like shooting actors, then making stills or animating characters, then just bringing them all together in a 3D space. That process is very close to my 2D work anyway.
Dave McKean
#34. There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#35. You told dad you didn't know what happened to his underwear. But You'd just flame-broiled his shorts on the grill.
C.C. Hunter
#36. Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.
Marlee Matlin
#37. The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.
Julia Hill
#38. Theories were clean and convincing and comprehensible. Life was messy and full of nonsense.
Julian Barnes
#39. No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
Washington Irving
#40. She did not begin to tell real lies until Rosa was in hospital suffering that filthy rot that left her all eaten out inside, as light and fragile as a pine log infested with white ant
Peter Carey
