Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

I hate getting bored.

Getting bored is not allowed.

I don't get bored.

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

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

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

If I am not moving I get bored very easily.

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

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom.

I'm either working or I'm lying in bed the entire day.

If I lounge around for too long, I get really bored. I have to be doing something.

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

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

I just can't imagine not having something to do.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.

When I'm sitting at home in the off season and I don't have anything to do, I watch tennis on my computer. It's kind of boring. It's something to do.

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

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

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 like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.