Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.

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

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

I don't like idle time.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

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.

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

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.

Those who never have time do least

Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.

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.

A loafer always has the correct time.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.