Idle Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idle Idle Solitary Idleness Laziness Procrastination Sloth Solitary Solitary Idle Solitary Solitary Solitude
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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence… — Alice Koller Copy Share Image
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Anyway, solitary people interest me. There are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'I know just what you mean,' said X. 'I know… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson 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
