The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“An idle mind is just a playground, a place to roam and play and discover.” — Dina Santorelli Copy Share Image
There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level. — Helen Schucman Copy Share Image
In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming. — James Van Fleet Copy Share Image
Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. — James Hervey Copy Share Image
The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good,… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If I become an MP I'll work for both Bollywood and Tollywood, specially for the old and out of work technicians. This… — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Why be thrifty when your old age and health care are provided for, no matter how profligate you act in your youth?… — David Frum Copy Share Image
it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which… — H. L. Mencken 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
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
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
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
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
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
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
