When the idle poor become the idle rich, you’ll never know just who is who, or which is which. – E. Y. Harburg

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late – thoughts both about and not about art. – Gustav Klimt

We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us. – Marc Morial

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. – Isaac Watts

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company. – Samuel Pepys

Shun idleness.  It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. – Voltaire

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp. – Juan Ruiz

Millions are idle, but it’s comforting to know that most of them have jobs. – Source Unknown

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. – Samuel Johnson

Idleness is the beginning of all vices. – Proverb

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. – John Lubbock

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. – Charles Kingsley

The idle always have a mind to do something. – Luc de Clapiers

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. – Benjamin Franklin

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. – Samuel Johnson

The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished. – Author Unknown

Nobody can think straight who does not work.  Idleness warps the mind. – Henry Ford

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. – Sherlock Holmes

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. – Victor Hugo

All man’s troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. – Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. – Bryant H. McGill

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. – Elizabeth Smart

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan. – Jan Schakowsky

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. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing. – James Harvey Robinson

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. – Jorge Luis Borges

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn’t stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him. – Jon Lovitz

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. – Robert Louis Stevenson

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice. – Bill Budge

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love. – Ovid