Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

I don't overwork - a couple of hours a day is fine for me.

I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period.

The less I work, the happier I am. I discovered that, as most people discover at some point.

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

Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime.

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

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

Work hard, play hard.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

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

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

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.

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

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

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.

I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.

There's never enough time to do nothing!

I'm at my best when I'm working. I just recently learned how to find balance and deal with downtime and take advantage of it.

I will sleep all day; I love staying in bed with my dog and reading and not getting up and checking my phone. And that gets me into trouble because I have things to do, and that's not very productive.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

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

I just enjoy both working and not working.