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Bill Watterson1 quote
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. — Bill Watterson · 1988F. Scott Fitzgerald1 quote
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925Jerome K. Jerome1 quote
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. — Jerome K. Jerome · 1886Kenneth Grahame1 quote
There is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. — Kenneth Grahame · 1908Mark Twain1 quote
It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next. — Mark Twain · 1884Marthe Troly-Curtin1 quote
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. — Marthe Troly-Curtin · 1912Otis Redding1 quote
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay,
Watchin' the tide roll away,
Ooh, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay,
Wastin' time. — Otis Redding · 1968P.G. Wodehouse1 quote
What with excellent browsing and sluicing and cheery conversation and what-not, the afternoon passed quite happily. — P.G. Wodehouse · 1916Peter Gibbons1 quote
Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing and it was everything I thought it could be. — Peter Gibbons · 1999Ralph Waldo Emerson1 quote
To fill the hour—that is happiness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1844Soren Kierkegaard1 quote
Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1843