Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

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

I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.

I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

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

Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.

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.

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

There's a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn't there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were shooting Breakfast on Pluto, and if I saw one kid throwing up on the street, I must have seen a hundred of them.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

I was hanging out with some of what my mother would consider the wrong kind of kids. With no direction, no motivation. I would hang out in the lunchroom all day, or the handball courts

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

Some men go a lifetime and never have their kid blow up a car, but I have a daughter who's knocked off three cars and burned down a funeral home. Maybe that's some kind of record.

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

I'm one of six children. I'd love to sound educated and say I dive into a good book when I'm there, but in truth, I spend time with the kids playing cards, ping-pong, and board games.

Killing time is not an easy job.

It's boredom. No other reason than that.