A Quotes
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“An Idiot with Money is still an Idiot.”
“An idle brain is the Devil’s workshop, they say. It is an absurdly incongruous statement. If the Devil is at work in a brain it certainly is not idle. And when one considers how brilliant a personage the Devil is, and what very fine work he turns out, it becomes an open question whether he would have the slightest use for most of the idle brains that cumber the earth.”
Source: I Await the Devil's Coming
“An idle genius is an oxymoron.”
“An idle hand is not just the devil's workshop, it is the devil's abode. He lives rent free there. When you don't provide job opportunities, intentionally deprived them of quality education and steal their future opportunities, they will come for your peace of minds. The earlier our leaders understand that these people are not just agitating for an end to SARS but everything that surround deepening state of corruptions in the country, the better they act up and effect the change. This is just the beginning of a very long journey that will reshape the state of our nation.”
“An idle head is a boxe for the winde.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“An idle life always produces varied inclinations.”
“An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.”
Source: The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse
“An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.”
Source: Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition
“An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.”
“An idle mind is a depressive mind.”
“An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.”
Source: Half A Shadow
“An idle mind leads to mischief, her mother had said. And she'd paid, oh had she paid. She'd lost everything.”
Source: The Wrong Family
“An idle mind was a recipe for disaster. Bathsheba wasn’t just teetering on the edge; I knew she was going to be diving right into a pool of tragedy.”
“An idle mind with enough time on their hands is far worse than a politician.”
“An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.”
Source: The Works of J.S., D.D., D.S.P.D.
“An Idle youth, a needy Age.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.”
Source: The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc
“An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.”
“An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.”
“An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.”
“An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.”
“An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.”
Source: The spectator
“An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant; before the idol men remain dependent children, before God they are burdened and at the same time liberated to participate in the decisions of endless creation.”
“An idol will always break your heart because no created thing can bear the freight of your deepest hopes or the weight of your souls longings.”
“An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.”
Source: The Lamorna Wink: A Richard Jury Mystery
“An if we live, we live to tread on kings;
If die, brave death, when princes die with us.”
Source: Henry VI, Part 1
“An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.”
“An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.”
“An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.”
“An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.”
Source: Dune: House Corrino
“An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.”
“An ignorant man believes that the whole universe only exists for him: as if nothing else required any consideration. If, therefore, anything happens to him contrary to his expectation, he at once concludes that the whole universe is evil. If, however, he would take into consideration the whole universe, form an idea of it, and comprehend what a small portion he is of the Universe, he will find the truth. There are many ... passages in the books of the prophets expressing the same idea.”
Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.”
“An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“An ignorant man seeks happiness in this life, but a wise man seeks self-knowledge.”
“An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.”
Source: El Libertador: Writings of Simón Bolívar
“An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.”
“An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.”
“An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed”
“An ill agreement is better then a good judgement.
[An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]”
“An ill deed cannot bring honor.”
Source: Beauties of Rev. George Herbert, A. M.
“An ill deede cannot bring honour.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse
“An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.”
Source: Lectures to My Students
“An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.”
“An ill weed grows apace.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“An ill-worded wish is worse than a curse...”
Source: Spelled