A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran

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

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
Walter Bagehot

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Marquis de Sade

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

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

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.
Jupiter Hammon

Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock.
William Emerson

But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.
Pia Zadora

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

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson

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

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Gustav Mahler

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

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
John Aubrey

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

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
Jean Genet

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
Jean Genet