As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves,… — Jupiter Hammon Copy Share Image
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt… — Bertrand Russell 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
True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
