Famous Quotes
228 Quotations with Idle.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: CONVENT, n. A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upo ...
- 22. Ambrose Bierce: DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow ...
- 23. Ambrose Bierce: IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and ...
- 24. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has bee ...
- 26. Joseph Scheidler: I think contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.
- 27. Samuel Johnson: Grief is a species of idleness.
- 28. California Civil Code: The law neither does nor requires idle acts.
- 29. George Bernard Shaw: Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing somet ...
- 30. H. L. Mencken: All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them ...
- 31. Bette Midler: I say 'girl' because I love to annoy people. I love the word 'girl'. 'Gal' is pr ...
- 32. Homer: Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers be ...
- 33. Hippocrates: Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
- 34. Samuel Johnson: Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the indu ...
- 35. Mark Ridley: The theory of evolution is outstandingly the most important theory in biology.
- 36. Floyd Dell: Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
- 37. Victor Hugo: A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor an ...
- 38. Soren Kierkegaard: Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
- 39. Ennius: The idle mind knows not what it wants.
- 40. Felix Frankfurter: Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of re ...