The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.
The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.
Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
It is better to be idle than employed in ill.
Idle hands are the devil's playthings.
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.
An idle head is a boxe for the winde.
Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report. [Lat. , Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem. ]
His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough"(72).
I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.
You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.
Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.
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.
There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.