“If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not… — Adelaide Anne Procter Copy Share Image
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan. — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
Not to perceive the little weaknesses and the idle but innocent affectations of the company may be allowable as a sort of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice! — Jean-Baptiste Say 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
Of the two smartest creatures on the earth, man and the dolphin, each thought they were smarter than the other. Man thought… — Gershon Legman Copy Share Image
Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God,… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. — James Hervey 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
The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse… — Mortimer Adler 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
In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
