Of the two smartest creatures on the earth, man and the dolphin, each thought they were smarter than the other. Man thought he was smarter because he built many things and did much work, while the dolphins just played all day. The dolphins thought they were smarter for the same reason.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.