Johanna Lindsey Quotes

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin.

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

Who has never killed an hour?

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

I made nothing happen very slowly.

I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

I am one of the great wasters of time. I have made it an art form. I can get up at 8 o'clock in the morning, be out of the house by 8:30 and back by 5 P.M., and I'll be going all day long and accomplish absolutely nothing. It's an amazing talent.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.