A Quote by John Ford
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Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.
The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.
In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!
Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.
Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.
A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest,
A motley fool! a miserable world!
As I do live by food, I met a fool
Who laid him down and basked him in the sun
And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms,
In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.
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