Arthur Helps Quotes

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

I'm terrible when I have to fill up free time. My days, if I'm not working, I wake up and figure out a way to kill time until it's time to go to sleep.

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.

I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

Who has never killed an hour?

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

Work hard, play hard.

The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

Continuous eloquence wearies.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower.