Saturday 1 May 2021

2 May is International day of Idleness. 10 quotes about being idle:

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure. Tom Hodgkinson
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. Cyril Connolly
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. George McDonald
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel. John Quincy Adams
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. Floyd Dell
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Jerome K Jerome
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest. Albert Einstein
No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. Sherlock Holmes
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble. Agatha Christie

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