Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“There is a great fear that plagues only romantics and children... it is that they might be alright alone.” — Merrit Malloy Copy Share Image
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
“She’s trying to figure out the Plague on her own and not taking what the Rising says for granted.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“events in the past—events that are key to finding a cure for the plague.” “Interesting,” Kate murmured.” — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
The Bible says, Be anxious for nothing, and that is a commandment! I took up a battle in this area, fought my… — Esther Smith Copy Share Image
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the… — Vincent Klyn Copy Share Image
You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
O Love, O great god Love, what have I done, That thou shouldst hunger so after my death? My heart is harmless… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“There would therefore have been all the more delight at the birth of the first son William within less than a year… — Ian Wilson Copy Share Image
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its… — Tim Lott Copy Share Image
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit,… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
“She used to recite the poem as a schoolgirl in England until she heard that it derived from the Great Plague of… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Mark Spitz had met plenty of the divine-retribution folks over the months. This was their moment; they were umbrella salesmen standing outside… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The addiction to our mobiles may insidiously unlock evil actions by helplessly surrendering to the plague of blatant indifference, arrogant inattention, and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
It is a racking thing to have a plague of ideas and no chance to get rid of them on paper. I've… — Inez Haynes Irwin Copy Share Image
As a fast spreading love as is fast spreading plague. ... But I am surprised that both of these from in what… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“They’d shared a lot that night, including a sickness that had a one hundred percent mortality rate, the plague.” — Bobby Akart Copy Share Image
I am so pro-swine flu...I want it. We need a plague. It's got to happen; don't be afraid. It's only going to… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague. — Chavela Vargas Copy Share Image
I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness. — Peter Paul Rubens Copy Share Image
One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The more Arsenal games I see, the more it chips away at my impostor syndrome, a common plague among Arsenal fans with… — Brendan Hunt Copy Share Image
Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference? — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightning, plague of locusts... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey,… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
“Mankind is a plague. Look at you. You rape and pillage, you suck the Earth dry and kill all your kindred. What… — Sarwat Chadda Copy Share Image
And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image