I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy… — Philip Kaufman Copy Share Image
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle. — Jim Stovall Copy Share Image
Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
Even though I'm resting I'm accomplishing something by sewing that shirt that I've been meaning to sew for weeks. And it's relaxing.… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home, and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage,… — Wayne D. Dosick Copy Share Image
Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
