I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life. — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. — Plato Copy Share Image
No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as… — Thomas Dekker Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth?… — David Frum Copy Share Image
it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us.… — Mary Virginia Terhune Copy Share Image
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Yes, take a little time to play And look at life the other way. God rested when the world was made: Rest… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract… — Will Self Copy Share Image
But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care… — Alan Wilson Copy Share Image
I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
My day starts at 5 A.M. and gets over at 10:30 P.M. Its a long day but I love it... I can't… — Esha Gupta Copy Share Image
All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing. — Will Self Copy Share Image
I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should… — Bill Budge Copy Share Image
although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“What an important lesson for all of us! The words that come out of our mouths are a direct indicator of what… — Robert Morris Copy Share Image
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