"They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed."

-- Socrates

#Philosophical Quotes #Might Quotes #Idle Quotes

“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”
“When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.”
“[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of [excess] ways. ... the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers ... [from] irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.”
“What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them and you want them to throw it back. Your ball playing is a lot better when you play with good ballplayers, like any sport. Every actor I know feels the same way.”
“How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.”
“In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?”
“There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays”
“Wherever art appears, life disappears.”

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