George Gamow (1904–1968) Russian-American physicist and science writer
Source: The Creation of the Universe (1952), p. 139
“Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
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Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908–1950Related quotes
Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Variant: I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours
Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii. Compare: " A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,—by deeds, not years", Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Pizarro, Act iv, Scene 1.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
“Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.”
Gustave Flaubert book Sentimental Education
Source: Sentimental Education
Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) Spanish Baroque lyric poet
Mal te perdonarán a ti las horas;
las horas que limando están los días,
los días que royendo están los años.
"De la brevedad engañosa de la vida", line 12, cited from J. M. Cohen (ed.) The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962) p. 278. Translation from the same source.