Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
No "natural" resource is more precious and to be used more wisely than time. These mortal moments matter more than we know. There are no idle hours; there are only idle people. In true righteousness there is serenity, but there is an array of reminders that the "sacred present" is packed with possibilities which are slipping by us, which are going away from us each moment.
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing.
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them
You get people criticising people who are happy to sit on the bench, picking up money.
There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.
One has to change one's life. Maybe this is easier for people who have nothing to do than for those who have something to do.
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
