Idlers Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

— Anonymous

... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

— Diane Ackerman

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

— Charles Baudelaire

Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

— Yehuda Amichai

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

— George Savile

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.

— Robert Herrick

A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does

— Dan Millman

Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper