Samuel Butler Quote

Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.

Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. We haven'tremained idle, twiddling o...

Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.

When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I should be working. I hurry through what I've got to do and then, when I've got nothing to do, I keep glan...

Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.

If only you can add just one great and distinctive thing to your life each day, you shall surely not just live and leave one great thing!

if you cannot find the distinctive opportunities you want, you can create the distinctive opportunities you want but you can't find!

Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Env...

Time is the pivot of life activities. When you miss a second, you miss a time in your lifetime! Time is undoubtedly the greatest asset one can ever acquire. The ultimate and real time is in the mind....

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.