Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal. — Octave Feuillet Copy Share Image
“Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make.” — Susan Ertz 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
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
Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear. — Jewel Copy Share Image
And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be… — John Smith Copy Share Image
O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Heat lingers As days are still long; Early mornings are cool While autumn is still young. Dew on the lotus Scatters pure… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
Prosperity is no idle expression. It is a job for every worker; it is the safety and safeguard of very business and… — Herbert Hoover 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
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
If I sit idle for one day, I feel 24 hours of my life are wasted. — Mimi Chakraborty Copy Share Image
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan. — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
