There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Idleness Quotes
Blessed is the man that has found his work. One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
Did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest. Hard work, moreover, not only tends to give us rest for the body, but, what is even more important, peace to the mind.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness – the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness – either enforced or voluntary. The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and […]
The way to be nothing is to do nothing.
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
