Top 19 Busies Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Busies

#1. He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#2. Now it is clear, God cares only for what is his, busies himself only with himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes; woe to all that is not well pleasing to him. He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is - a purely egoistic cause.

Max Stirner

#3. Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Samuel Johnson

#4. I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.

Edgar Allan Poe

#5. He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins ...

St. Maximos The Confessor

#6. Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

Horace

#8. If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.

Charles Horton Cooley

#9. If one busies himself with an outer display of scriptural wealth, what time is left for silent inward diving after the priceless pearls?" Sri

Paramahansa Yogananda

#10. Despair busies one, and my weekend was spoken for. I was going to lie down on the floor of my apartment in the draft of the air conditioner and spend two days and nights traveling a circuit of regret, self-pity, and jealousy.

Joseph O'Neill

#11. Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.

Marcus Aurelius

#12. I'll just say this. There was no way we were going to lose at home on this day in this in this city for all those people.

Tom Coughlin

#13. Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.

Matthew Reilly

#14. When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.

Denzel Washington