Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Just like an idle software, your brain is less efficient after a long break. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle. — Jim Stovall Copy Share Image
Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep. — John Keats Copy Share Image
I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take… — Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Copy Share Image
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that… — George du Maurier Copy Share Image
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home. We… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half… — Edna St. Vincent Millay 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
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
