Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.
The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.
By doing nothing we learne to do ill.
Whining isn't a scalable solution.
Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.
People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives.
Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.
Doing nothing, badly.
I did spend much of my 20s sitting on a couch playing video games and ordering disgusting food.
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?
She probably gave up and started playing Minesweeper." [...] We reached the cafe and found Sydney bent over her laptop, with a barely eaten Danish and what was probably her fourth cup of coffee. We slid into seats beside her. "How's it—hey! You ARE playing Minesweeper!
One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.
The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.
They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. And unfortunately, it is also the definition of Canadian politics.
Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.
