Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Who has never killed an hour?

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.

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

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

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

Killing time is not an easy job.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

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

Absence of occupation is not rest.

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

We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

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

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

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.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

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

I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.

There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

I don't like not being busy.

I say I want a break, but every time I have some down time, I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be doing something.

Mostly, I just waste my time.

I don't like idle time.