There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
we must be as satisfied to be powerless, idle and still before God, and dried up and barren when He permits it,… — Jane Frances de Chantal Copy Share Image
Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it… — Samuel Johnson 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
As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
