#idle

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. ↗

— Jean Genet

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I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. ↗

— Jean Genet

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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

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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love. ↗

— Ovid

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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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

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