Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty… — Gottfried Keller Copy Share Image
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There's no greater drug than passion, no greater enemy than challenge, and no stronger addiction than success. Spend life LIVING, not existing. — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his… — Hamilton Wright Mabie 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
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
A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held… — Homer Copy Share Image
Miss Erstwhile: “It is such a relief, Mr. Nobley, to already know that you find this exercise vulgar and your partner unworthy.… — Shannon Hale 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
How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are… — Washington Irving 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
Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief. — Holly Black 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
I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers… — Robin McKinley 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
[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it… — William James 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
It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for… — Ambrose Bierce 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
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed?… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“MEN AND WOMEN who did almost nothing for a large part of the year tend not to figure prominently in history books.… — Graham Robb Copy Share Image
Maps help us in tracking our cabs - if they're idle, headed for a booking, or in the midst of a trip.… — Bhavish Aggarwal Copy Share Image
It is...idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window… — Dan Jenkins 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
The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
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