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
“We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.” — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
First I gave up action. Then idle words, and lastly thought itself. Now I am here. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste… — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as… — Thomas Dekker Copy Share Image
No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“Conquerors fight their own battles. You are more than a conqueror, that's why the battle was fought on your behalf by Christ.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment;… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want… — Neil Jackson Copy Share Image
Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or… — Mort Crim 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
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
I think we owe it to children to let them dig their knowledge, of whatever subject, for themselves out of the "fit"… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee. — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down. — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog. — Isabel Yosito Copy Share Image
Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
No matter how busy idle people are, they always find time for everything. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
