Idle Quote by Robert Dale Owen Download Open image “It is idle to await unanimity.” — Robert Dale Owen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idle Procrastination
No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for… — Anonymous 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
Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind. — Robert Dale Owen 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
