My attempts at a lawn. Twice have we had the ground carefully dug up, and prepared; twice it has been sown with… — Bee Dawson Copy Share Image
No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what… — Walter E. Williams 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
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But… — Michael Flanders Copy Share Image
Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should… — William Shakespeare 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
Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain… — Josephine Tey 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
“Conquerors fight their own battles. You are more than a conqueror, that's why the battle was fought on your behalf by Christ.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Prosperity is no idle expression. It is a job for every worker; it is the safety and safeguard of very business and… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I spend a good deal of time wondering how we will seem to the people who come after us. This is not… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as… — Thomas Dekker Copy Share Image
... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted him to perform; therefore, he should not stand an idle spectator… — Sarah Trimmer Copy Share Image
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislative as… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor… — William Morris Copy Share Image
The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking,… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I… — Gustave Courbet 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
