It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
It is idle to await unanimity.
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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.
I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.