Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

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

Another reason I did not make films is that I liked being unemployed, since that is when I read, study and write.

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.

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.

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

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.

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

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.

If I'm not working, I don't know what to do.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

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

Mostly, I just waste my time.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

I didn't do anything productive during my break after 'Dream Girl.' I didn't even take a vacation!

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

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.

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

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

Who has never killed an hour?