Active Quote by Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet

He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived, but lost.

— Thomas Fuller

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“I have some knowledge of the time that may be misspent, clinging to fictions and supposing them truths.”

— Sarah Waters

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

— Anita Brookner

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our…

— Francois Fenelon

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope…

— Thomas Carlyle

The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness,…

— William Shakespeare

Idleness is paralysis.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

“Liza had a finely developed sense of sin Idleness was a sin, and card playing, which was a kind of idleness to her. She…

— John Steinbeck

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

— Robertson Davies

“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own…

— Iwan Goll

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

— Benjamin Franklin

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

— James Mackintosh

“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.…

— William Shakespeare

“Idleness is seductive. Just relax and do nothing, it says.”

— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe