Employed Quote by Socrates Download Open image “I call that man idle who might be better employed.” — Socrates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Employed Idle Men Might
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. — Socrates Copy Share Image
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited… — Thomas S. Gates Jr Copy Share Image
The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image