Quotes on Busy

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.

Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast….Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.