The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. — John Lubbock 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 keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life. — Ivan Bunin Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society. — Richard Hamming 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
Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle. — Jim Stovall Copy Share Image
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
we must be as satisfied to be powerless, idle and still before God, and dried up and barren when He permits it,… — Jane Frances de Chantal Copy Share Image
I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
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
This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the… — William Stanley Jevons 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
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
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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
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