Rose Macaulay Quotes

One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

I don't know the difference between working and not working.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

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

I don't like not working.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

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.

When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.