Idle State

Famous quotes containing the words idle and/or state:

“A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity. The idle are the only wretched.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)