The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. — Plato Copy Share Image
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am not ignorant of what is said of my Lord in the Psalm: "You destroy those who speak a lie." And… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone -… — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . .… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare… — Charles Tupper Copy Share Image
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers. — George Henry Lewes 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
“We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
