Marie Dressler Quotes

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

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

If you want to kill time why not try working it to death.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.

Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.

It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

I'm always busy. And I don't even see it really as work, because everything I do I still really enjoy.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

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

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

If you don't put out a shirt for eight months, that doesn't mean it took you eight months to make the shirt.

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in the world. The popular notion is that a youth's progress depends upon how he acts during his working hours. It doesn't. It depends far more upon how he utilizes his leisure...If he spends it in harmless idleness, he is likely to be kept on the payroll, but that will be about all. If he diligently utilizes his own time...to fit himself for more responsible duties, then the greater responsibilities - and greater rewards - are almost certain to come to him.

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

We work super hard to not have to work

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

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.