Idle Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Download Open image “Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idle Moments Thoughtful Thrifty Time Work
Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
“idleness is the ideal of genius, and indolence the virtue of the Romantic.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“ Endymion The rising moon has hid the stars; Her level rays, like golden bars, Lie on the landscape green, With shadows brown between.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“ Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers,— Dwelt in the love of God and of man. Alike were they free from Fear,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
