Idle Quote by George Stillman Hillard Download Open image “The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.” — George Stillman Hillard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idle Men Moments Ruins Time
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. — Jean Genet 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 is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home, and freedom's defender.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your… — Wumen Huikai Copy Share Image
