Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at… — Richard Henry Dana, Jr Copy Share Image
EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech.… — Eliphas Levi 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
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe! — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
I paused for a light at Hamilton and TWlfth and noticed the Nissan was running rough at idle. Two blocks later it… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want… — Neil Jackson Copy Share Image
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I’ll kill him for you.” From anyone else, it would have been an… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you!… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image