Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming. — James Van Fleet Copy Share Image
These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The most agreeable thing in life is worthy accomplishment. It is not possible that the idle tramp is as contented as the… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I'm working and weeks… — Eric Lange Copy Share Image
Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should… — Plato Copy Share Image
I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too… — Pia Zadora Copy Share Image
“If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
