I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.”
Source: John Ploughman's Talks
“Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.”
“Idle minds who’ll hardly sleep till they creep up on their victims, and peep out something deep for their cheap talk, should weep for themselves.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.”
“Idle time is the devil's play.”
“Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make.”
Source: Anger in the Sky
“Idle war of head versus heart
It's always this way
My head is weak it always speaks
Before I know what it will say”
“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
Source: Rimbaud
“Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.”
“Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.”
“Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.”
“Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.”
Source: Hippocrates
“Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.”
Source: The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography & Selected Writings
“Idleness and solitude led to these dramatics: an ordinary turd indulging himself as the chief of sinners.”
Source: The Dog of the South
“Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.”
“Idleness breeds our better virtues.”
“Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.”
“Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.”
“Idleness induces caprice.”
“Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves”
“Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.”
“Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
“Idleness is an enemy of the soul.”
“Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.”
“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
Source: Happy Death
“Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.”
“Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.”
“Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.”
Source: Were You Ever a Child?
“Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.”
Source: Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir
“Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.”
“Idleness is paralysis.”
“Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.”
Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.”
“Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?”
“Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Idleness is the enemy of the soul.”
“Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.”
“Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Idleness is the great plague of India.”
Source: Collected Works
“Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.”
“Idleness is the key of beggary.”
Source: The Salt Cellars
“Idleness is the parent of psychology.”
“Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.”
“Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.”