Idle Quote by Jonathan Swift Download Open image “An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.” — Jonathan Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idle Procrastination Reason Weight
Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. — Karl Marx 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
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift 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
