“Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait / not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.”
George Bernard Shaw
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
Victor Hugo
“Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could”
Jeremy Taylor
“Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.”
Lord Chesterfield
“Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.”
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
