Top Idle Quotes
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
Robert Dale Owen
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
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
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
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran 
80% of people like this quote
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
Robert Dale Owen
61% of people like this quote
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
61% of people like this quote
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
60% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Gustav Mahler
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