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
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
[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
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads… — Robert Loveman Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the… — Franz Karl Achard Copy Share Image
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
“I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
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