Lewis Cass Quotes

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

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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 don't understand the joy of sitting in my house with nothing to do.

When I was a boy, my father used to criticize me for - it's hard to translate - I guess you could say 'mindless time.' Thinking what to do. I need to be bored so I can be pushed into doing something.

The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean-when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.

Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

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.

Writing is busy idleness.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

When a thing bores you, do not do it.

For too much rest becomes a pain.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

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

All I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante.