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
If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just… — Michael Merzenich 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
Why do you think the lottery is so popular? Do you think anybody would play if the super payoff was a job… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will… — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook Copy Share Image
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that… — Martin Luther 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
For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he be… — John Smith Copy Share Image
The people who are unemployed want to do the work, but the system is such a catastrophic failure that it cannot bring… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor, and at the expiration… — Artemus Ward Copy Share Image
Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season, When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason, Have ruin'd many. Passion is unjust,… — Theognis of Megara Copy Share Image
Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“We know that all things work. Look around you. All things work. Work is the opposite of idleness. The idle man folds… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
To love Christ more, is the deepest need, the constant cry of my soul Out in the woods and on my bed… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by… — Mary Schmich 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
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Transfer payments discourage the recipients from earning income in the present and from investing in their potential to earn income in the… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not… — Plato Copy Share Image
Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he… — Jon Lovitz Copy Share Image
An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
There was a moment when I was getting death threats and bullshit via the Internet, so I was being a little more… — Jay Reatard Copy Share Image
