Frivolous Quote by James Mackintosh Download Open image “The frivolous work of polished idleness.” — James Mackintosh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Frivolous Idleness Inspirational Love Polished Procrastination Work
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing. — Will Self Copy Share Image
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. — Jeremy Collier 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 makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are. — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank. — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their natural sloth tempting them on the other. They are terrified at the prospect before them, of the toil required to attain exactness. The impetuosity of youth is disgusted at the slow approaches of a regular siege,… — Anonymous Copy Share
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly… — Laurie Cabot Copy Share Image
“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen the pompous face of this Rome saved by your efforts and which your honourable name had distinguished more than all its conquests? 'Gods,' you would have said, 'what has happened to those thatched roofs and those… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now… — Winston Churchill Copy Share
It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
