“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
When there’s nothing else he’d rather do, a writer on a raft, idles on the tide. This series of picture poetry is an artist’s impressions of words which emerge from idling well.
It is better to idle well than to work poorly.
— Anon
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
— William Shakespeare
Life’s so unpredictable. You never know when the next high or low will strike you. The trick is just to flow with the tide.
— Zeenat Aman
Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
— Prem Rawat
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
— Virginia Woolf
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
―Francois Rabelais
He who cannot be idle, let him fall in love.
— Ovid
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
— Robert Burton
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
— Anton Chekhov
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
— Tom Hodgkinson
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
— James Matthew Barrie
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“Life is but a dream. Any rower of boats will tell you this.” The best thing about writing is that idleness is part and parcel to the process. I can’t remember who said it, but sitting in a chair and doing nothing is part of being a writer. Viva Idleness. But who am I to spend so much time in the comment section. There are things to do! Good job, Leduc & Sum.
Much appreciated, George. Just to answer your question, I’d say you are a writer who has nothing else you’d rather do than idle in the comment section. And you do it well.