Idle

Famous quotes containing the word idle:

“Love goes
when he’s not around,
goes
when he’s around too much,
goes
because of idle rumor;
goes
all by itself.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one were to begin the day with long-suffering, and hire a man to hoe his potatoes; and in the afternoon go forth to practise Christian meekness and charity with goodness aforethought!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“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)