Telephones! The curse of
idle women.
View quotes by Axel MuntheHow these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such
idle fellowes as I put them down.
View quotes by John AubreyIdle rumours were also added to well-founded apprehensions
View quotes by LucanusGod loves an
idle rainbow,
No less than labouring seas
View quotes by Ralph HodgsonFor Satan finds some mischief still
For
idle hands to do.
View quotes by Isaac WattsIdle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
View quotes by Arthur RimbaudIdlers cannot even find time to be
idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering
View quotes by Johann Georg Von ZimmermannThere is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely
idle - to do nothing at all.
View quotes by Sydney SmithA vain,
idle and sinful game at which there was much of the language of the accursed going on [on tennis]
View quotes by James HoggNothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an
idle tongue.
View quotes by Bishop Jeremy TaylorNever be entirely
idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
View quotes by Thomas A KempisTo be
idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his
idleness from himself.
View quotes by Samuel JohnsonChildren generally hate to be
idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
View quotes by John LockeA golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the
idle and idiot well-to-do.
View quotes by Sir Osbert SitwellI am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the
idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate
View quotes by James Gates PercivalIt is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
View quotes by PythagorasA man is not
idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.
View quotes by Victor HugoBooks, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an
idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
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