"The idle mind knows not what it wants." — Quintus Ennius
"The idle mind knows not what it wants."
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Quintus Ennius
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17 Quotes by Quintus Ennius
Quintus Ennius has 17 quotes on this site.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so
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Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am…
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He who has two languages has two souls.
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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead
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He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp…
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to…
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More Idle Quotes
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because…
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I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to…
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Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois…
— Nick Cave
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
— Thomas Carlyle
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To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring…
— Benjamin Haydon
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A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp,…
— Osbert Sitwell
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— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and…
— William Penn
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Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill…
— Wumen Huikai
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True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.
— William Shakespeare
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