Idleness

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

—Jerome K. Jerome

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

—Samual Johnson

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

—Jerome K. Jerome

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

—Soren Kierkegaard

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

—Floyd Dell

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

—Blaise Pascal