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 Jerome K. Jerome
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be...
I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.
(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should...
We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.
