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Idle Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one.…
- He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as…
- Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and…
- The devil finds work for idle hands.
- I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking…
- Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and…
- To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
- Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and…
- How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one were tobegin the…
More Idle Quotes
- A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. — Walter Bagehot
- Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler
- I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses… — Jorge Luis Borges
- I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle… — Jo Brand
- Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings… — Nick Cave
- One monster there is in the world, the idle man. — Thomas Carlyle
- To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment;… — Benjamin Haydon
- A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the… — Osbert Sitwell
- Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For… — William Penn
- Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts,… — Wumen Huikai
- True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. — William Shakespeare