I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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Lawrence Durrell
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
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Bill Watterson
It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.
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Tim Winton
His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.
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Iain Pears
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
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Benedict Of Nursia
More Quotes By W. S. Gilbert
Did nothing in particular And did it very well.
Things are seldom what they seem Skim milk masquerades as cream.
Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever.
He did nothing in particular And did it very well.
For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations He remains an Englishman.
