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

" All universal moral principles are idle fancies. "

Marquis de Sade

" Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out. "

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

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

" As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious. "

William Wilberforce

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

Benjamin Franklin

" Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief. "

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

James Harvey Robinson

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

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

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

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

" Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog. "

" Idle time is the devil's play. "

" Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. "

" If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love. "

" I hate being idle - there are still so many things I want to do. "

" I'm a call-sheet junkie. I love being on set. So, the hardest thing for me is dealing with all this idle time. That's when I get into trouble. "

" I'm not good when idle. "

" I'm not very happy idle. "

" I think being idle is quite hard for me to do. "

Tatiana Maslany

" I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part. "

" I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices. "

" I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life. "

" It is idle to await unanimity. "

Robert Dale Owen

" It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal. "

William Ernest Henley

" It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney. "

" Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. "

" Maps help us in tracking our cabs - if they're idle, headed for a booking, or in the midst of a trip. With custom systems built atop maps using available APIs, we are able to manage our inventory extremely well, predict ETAs for customers, and optimally allocate the nearest cab to a booking request. "

Bhavish Aggarwal

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