Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.
Ur be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the...
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Dorothy Parker
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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A.a. Milne
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
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John Lubbock
He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and...
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Albert Camus
Is idleness indeed so black a crime? What are the Busy doing, half their time?
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William Allingham
More Quotes By Richard Llewellyn
There is beautiful you are."" No, " said Marged, between a sigh and a sob." Yes, " said Owen."No, " said Marged, not so certain." Behold, " Owen said, from Solomon. "thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes."" Dove's eyes are small." Marged said." Yours...
Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.
Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.
Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have strength, and that strength shall become part of you, mind,...
Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with quality, every single note a carpet of colour woven from...
