Terry Pratchett Quotes

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

Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

I like being busy. I couldn't sit around the house all day and do nothing.

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

His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working.

I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

I work like a dog when I have to, but when I'm not working, I get terribly lazy and could sit around all day.

It's good to be busy. I prefer that than sitting back and enjoying life.

If I ever stop working, I might have a problem. But I never seem to be able to stop working.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

Free time is the enemy of progress

You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"