Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

I would rather be sick than idle.

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.

There's never enough time to do nothing!

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

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.

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

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

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

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

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

I like the pace of my world. It's busy, but for me, the less I do the lazier I get.

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.