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 Lord Chesterfield
Advice is seldom welcome and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.