Tomorrow is the day that idlers get busy.
All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler out of laziness and lack of character, owing to the baseness of his nature. If you like, you may take me for one of those. Then there is the other kind ...
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
The faster you go, the idler you get.
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called...
The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.
Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.
I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.
Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect.
