I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal. — Octave Feuillet Copy Share Image
Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God,… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired. — Armand Hammer Copy Share Image
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing. — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle… — Ignatius of Loyola 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
As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I'm working and weeks… — Eric Lange Copy Share Image
“There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience with hard work is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking,… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Never allow any unnecessary or vain thought to occupy your mind. This is more easily said than done. You cannot make your… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Not to perceive the little weaknesses and the idle but innocent affectations of the company may be allowable as a sort of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Sorry about Bender," Lula said, letting the Trans Am idle at the curb. "Maybe we could tell Vinnie he died. We could… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map… — Marcel Proust 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
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Too much idle time get you in trouble. That's why I can't wait to start school again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Idle old man, That still would manage thoseauthorities That he hath given away! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
