idle Quotes

“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.”

“I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.”

“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.”

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”

“Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.”

“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.”

“Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.”

“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.”

“If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.”