As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought. — David O. McKay 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
You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life. — Ivan Bunin Copy Share Image
In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would… — Allen Tate 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
Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I… — Aleksandar Hemon 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
We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already… — Plato Copy Share Image
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The way I think I should stay out of trouble is by stayin' busy. With idle time comes a lot of biz,… — Gucci Mane Copy Share Image
The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from… — John Simon Copy Share Image
For Hell and the foul fiend that rules God's everlasting fiery jails (Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools), With his grim, grisly… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle,… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Thus God himself was too kind to remain idle and began to play the game of signatures signing his likeness unto the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor… — William Morris Copy Share Image
The romance of circumvention is one of the most destructive forces at work in our society. The American Idol freeway to greatness,… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most… — Meher Baba 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
Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming. — James Van Fleet Copy Share Image
“An idle mind is just a playground, a place to roam and play and discover.” — Dina Santorelli Copy Share Image
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level. — Helen Schucman Copy Share Image
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