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 Edgar Watson Howe
When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep
About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
