His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. — Charles Dudley Warner 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
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
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And… — Joaquin Miller 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
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
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have had my share of twiddling my thumbs while sitting idle at home — Ranvir Shorey 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
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If I sit idle for one day, I feel 24 hours of my life are wasted. — Mimi Chakraborty 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
“Having faith does not mean you should be idle and expecting manna to fall from above. You must get up and do… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed? — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I did not understand that wanting… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good,… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
The difference between you and her (whom I to you did once prefer) Is clear enough to settle: She like a diamond… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
