George Borrow Quotes

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.

When there's not much to do, you find things to do that get you in trouble.

You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

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.

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

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.

Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.

I am not a person who can do nothing. I get very bored.

Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom.

Mostly, I just waste my time.

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

For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.

I'm not a patient person and sitting around the house waiting to get back to WWE does me no good.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.