To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice! — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. — Anonymous 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
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all… — E. O. Wilson 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
It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare… — Charles Tupper Copy Share Image
“Anytime you feel like you don't have any work to do, just look around. Look for what God had started doing and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take… — Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Copy Share Image
Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he… — Al-Ghazali 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
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
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not… — Adelaide Anne Procter Copy Share Image
In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk… — B. C. Forbes 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
God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee. — Jim Elliot 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
“the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
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