Charles Francis Adams Sr. Quotes

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

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

I'm quite lazy.

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

I hate getting bored.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

I don't know the difference between working and not working.

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

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.

There is no leisure about politics.

We are fixed with every convenience, long desks, easy revolving chairs, footstools, plenty of servants and no specific work to be done.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active.

I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?

'Slacker' is so not about navel-gazing.