idle Quotes and Quotations
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idle Quotes and Quotations
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. Jorge Luis Borges | top
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. Buddha | top
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. Lord Chesterfield | top
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Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. Jeremy Collier | top
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Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron. Ezra Cornell | top
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Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock. William Emerson | top
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. Jean Genet | top
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Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war. Remy de Gourmont | top
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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. Hesiod | top
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson | top
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Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. Jerome K. Jerome | top
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. Barbara Johnson | top
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. Soren Kierkegaard | top
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. David Herbert Lawrence | top
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | top
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It is idle to await unanimity. Robert Dale Owen | top
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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company. Samuel Pepys | top
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I wonder at the idleness of tears. Lizette Woodworth Reese | top
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Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men. Franklin D. Roosevelt | top
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The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century. Allyson Schwartz | top
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. Robert Louis Stevenson | top
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It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill. Charles Tupper | top
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency. Eamon de Valera | top
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. Isaac Watts | top
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. William Wordsworth | top
