Allowing Quote by William Ralph Inge

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't…

— Bertrand Russell

“Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you…

— Eric Weiner

Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I…

— Philip Guston

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is…

— Samuel Johnson

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.

— Plato

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and…

— Anonymous

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

— Ezra Cornell

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

— Ovid

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

— Nick Cave

The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'

— Lionel Shriver

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

— Angela Carter

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

— Anonymous