Terry Eagleton Quotes

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

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

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

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.

I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

I'm either working or I'm lying in bed the entire day.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

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

I'm pretty lazy. My wife always says, "you're the laziest, most successful Olympian I've ever seen." How does that make sense? Honestly, if I have downtime, I'm really, really good at not doing anything.

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?