I do want to get married. It's a nice idea. Though I think husbands are like tattoos--you should wait until you come… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference,… — Leopold Hartley Grindon Copy Share Image
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I face the world as it is and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract… — Will Self 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
