| "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 |
| "It simply comes down to this, Get busy Living, or Get busy Dying." »Tim Robbins |
| "He not busy being born is busy dying." »Bob Dylan |
| "Get busy living or get busy dying." »Red |
| "A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools." »Danish proverb |
| "Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren Are you kidding By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha." »Hal |
| "It is not enough to be busy the question is what are we busy about" »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." »John Lennon |
| "Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy." »Seneca |
| "I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death." »Zora Neale Hurston |
| "Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can' Then get busy and find out how to do it." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "If you want to make certain a job gets done, give it to somebody who is really busy. They'll have their secretary do it." »Joe Moore |
| "There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting." »Mark Twain |
| "The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at." »Donald Robert Perry Marquis |
| "Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others." »H. Jackson Browne |
| "In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "I think a good gift for the president would be a chocolate revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him and hand it to him." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior." »Henry C. Link |
| "Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair." »George Burns |
| "Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house." »Charles Dickens |
| "I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's mortality." »James Joyce |
| "One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself." »Lucille Ball |
| "The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower." »Edith Hamilton |
| "Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too." »Bill Vaughan |
| "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 |
| "Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing." »Thomas Alva Edison |
| "These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as 'I see where I can make an annual cut of 3.47 in my meat budget.' But they have no slow, big ideas." »Brenda Ueland |
| "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 |
| "For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
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