Idle

Famous quotes containing the word idle:

“If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity. The idle are the only wretched.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 19:15.