Edward Young Quotes

Who has never killed an hour?

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Mostly, I just waste my time.

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

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

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

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

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.

Procrastination is still the thief of time.

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.

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

Biding time is easy -- and gets you nowhere.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

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.

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

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.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.