Idle

Famous quotes containing the word idle:

“We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not think of the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“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.)

“No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. ‘Tis a step out of the chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)