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 Socrates
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Know thyself.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
