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Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.

Charles Peters

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

George Burns
US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996)

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Bob Dylan
US singer & songwriter (1941 - )

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

George Burns
US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996)

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo
French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885)

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.

Michel de Montaigne
French essayist (1533 - 1592)

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

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It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

Katharn Hepburn

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
English novelist (1775 - 1817)

Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?

John Clarke, Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639

He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.

Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
English clergyman & historian (1608 - 1661)

None are so busy as the fool and knave.

John Dryden, The Medal, 1682
English dramatist & poet (1631 - 1700)

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

Spanish proverb

It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.

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Quotations by unknown authors

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

George Burns
US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996)

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.

William Hazlitt
English essayist (1778 - 1830)

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own.

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