You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. [Matthew 9:37]

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

The way to be nothing is to do nothing.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

The hardest work of all is to do nothing.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, "I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out." If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you."