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A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.


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FRANCIS ASBURY One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for thr...
CHARLES STURT The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it wi...
THOMAS TRAHERNE The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it wi...
ROBERT TOWNSEND Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
SIR WALTER SCOTT Then he went back hastily.
QURAN But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
THOMAS DAY I think I was rushing my shots. I was too happy -- too excited -- to be here in this atmosphere.
KALIN LUCAS Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, com...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Let's start rolling with it now. This is a good test, because they're No. 1 in the nation in rushing...
FROSTEE RUCKER Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And h...
ALEXANDER POPE If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our childre...
BILL CLINTON We hastily call someone a friend.
NABIL N. JAMAL quickly conceived and hastily thrown together.
CHARLES RANGEL We were just trying to get to Columbia too quickly. We were rushing. That happens. You get anxious a...
FLOYD IRONS In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
THOMAS CARLYLE In idleness there is a perpetual despair
THOMAS CARLYLE And maidens call it--Love in idleness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
SAADI Mankind is busily manufacturing its way into extinction.
STEVEN MAGEE Success operates in active moments and not in idleness.
OSCAR BIMPONG Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER Do not believe hastily.
OVID A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently
PUBLILIUS SYRUS In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.
ALEXANDRA FULLER Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, ...
LLOYD ALEXANDER Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
JOHANN G. SEUME Jamie doesn't like to do anything hastily, and I like to do everything incredibly hastily. So th...
ADAM SAVAGE Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for...
ANNE BAXTER Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and f...
ANNE BAXTER She lovede Right fro the firste sighte.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter "O."
COVENTRY PATMORE Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
FLOYD DELL They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
BIBLE the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable ...
PLATO Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have ...
ERIC HOLDER Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and...
ANNE BAXTER War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtu...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.
THOMAS FULLER Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas
THOMAS FULLER An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geogr...
HUDSON STUCK Only dead fish allow the sea to carry them to and fro.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarett...
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE When too much emphasis are being laid on miracles in a nation, it will always be poor, helpless and ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Grief is a species of idleness.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
TIMOTHY FERRISS In traveling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.
KATE MCKINNON Whites they pretended to ignore, as they busily lived mirror-image white lives.
GAIL LUMET BUCKLEY In 1998, I was with Tampa Bay when we led the league in rushing - and we stunk. We led the league in...
TRENT DILFER There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience w...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
UNKNOWN Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to...
MITT ROMNEY Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
MAHATMA GANDHI Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible
MAHATMA GANDHI Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: a...
BIBLE Idleness induces caprice.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily
GEOFFREY CHAUCER It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
SIDNEY MADWED He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Evil thoughts often come from idleness.
GAELIC PROVERB Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the c...
GEORGE MACDONALD You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golde...
SIR JAMES M. BARRIE It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
VIRGINIA WOOLF There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor...
SIR AUBREY DE VERE Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe, They sit, they l...
JAMES THOMSON (1) A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of which you can have no conce...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus seg...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. [Lat., Cern...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Sir James Mackintosh,
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH An idle life always produces varied inclinations. [Lat., Variam semper dant otia mentem.]
LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid. [Lat., Blandoque ven...
CAIUS SILIUS ITALICUS Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do ...
JEREMY COLLIER I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idlenes...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I live an idle burden to the ground.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?
JOHN HEYWOOD Thus idly busy rolls their world away.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that b...
WILLIAM COWPER Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which mo...
ROBERT BURTON In the diligence of his idleness. [Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]
HOSEA BALLOU Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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