Henry Fielding Quotes

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

That’s why these kids get into so much trouble. They don’t have anything to do.

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

Boredom does get you into trouble and we footballers have a lot of time on our hands, and sometimes we fill up that time with stuff that isn't always positive.

I don't enjoy doing nothing or sitting in my trailer watching ESPN.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

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

Who has never killed an hour?

For too much rest becomes a pain.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up dolls and placed them throughout the fortress, all because Paris had foolishly complained about the lack of female companionship in town. The plastic "ladies" had stared our from every corner, their wide eyes and let-me-suck-you mouths taunting everyone who passed them. Things like that happened when Torin was bored.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.

The most exciting thing either of us does is nap.

Absence of occupation is not rest.

Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.