I have never occupied myself with trifles. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The place in which; the place previously occupied.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. [ Landor ]

The more idle a woman's hand, the more occupied her heart. [ S. Dubay ]

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. [ Horace ]

A coquette is more occupied with the homage we refuse her, than with that we bestow upon her. [ A. Dupuy ]

There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people. [ M. de Bonald ]

I have been too much occupied with things themselves to think either of their beginning or their end. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are; they have no time, they are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

An era is fast approaching when no writer will be rend by the majority, save and except those than can effect that for bales of manuscript that the hydrostatic screw performs for bales of cotton, by condensing that matter into a period that before occupied a page. [ Cottar ]

Let any man examine his thoughts, and he will find them ever occupied with the past or the future. We scarcely think at all of the present; or if we do, it is only to borrow the light which it gives, for regulating the future. The present is never our object; the past and the present we use as means; the future only is our end. Thus, we never live, we only hope to live. [ Pascal ]