Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with… — Horace Copy Share Image
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“But most of all, as summer slanted to an end, he was learning to love idleness, idleness no longer as stretches of… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless.… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
