Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds and the holiday of fools. Pr.

Idleness is the badge of gentry, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the step-mother of discipline, the chief author of mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion on which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of melancholy, but of many other diseases. Burton.

Idleness is the greatest prodigality in the world. Pr.

Idleness is the root of all evil. Pr. 40

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man. Anselm.

Idleness rusts the mind. Pr.

Idolatry is simply the substitution of an "Eidolon," phantasm, or imagination of good for that which is real and enduring, from the highest Living Good which gives life, to the lowest material good which ministers to it. Ruskin.

Idoneus homo—A fit man.

If a barrel-organ in a slum can but drown 45 a curse, let no Christian silence it. Prof. Drummond.

If a beard were all, the goat would be winner. Dan. Pr.