With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging… — Mike Caro Copy Share Image
I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can… — Betty Field Copy Share Image
There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure,… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell. — Henry Reed Copy Share Image
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. — Polybius Copy Share Image
Why do you think the lottery is so popular? Do you think anybody would play if the super payoff was a job… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I would love to get a place out in the country and spend my idle time just remodeling and planting seeds and… — Joe Lando Copy Share Image
I used to be quite a big video game player at university and post-university in that weird moment in life before you… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
