Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Empty Chambers make foolish maides.
It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
People who sit for hours in a beach chair or an airplane seat without any reading material simply baffle me: What is going on between their ears, I wonder?
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody, we're a figment of their imagination.
It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.
Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.
There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.
Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
Sometimes when kids look like they're daydreaming, it's because they are, and we can't allow that possibility.
We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.
