WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 15 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg slacking – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Eisenhower, Dwight David -- News conference (12 May 1954) https://wist.info/eisenhower-dwight/29407/ https://wist.info/eisenhower-dwight/29407/#respond Thu, 21 May 2015 12:01:23 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=29407 There is an old saw in the services: that which is not inspected deteriorates.


Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) American general, US President (1953-61)
News conference (12 May 1954) ]]> https://wist.info/eisenhower-dwight/29407/feed/ 0 29407 Jerome, Jerome K. -- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, “On Being Idle” (1886) https://wist.info/jerome-jerome-k/7889/ https://wist.info/jerome-jerome-k/7889/#respond Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:59:12 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=7889 It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

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Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) English writer, humorist [Jerome Klapka Jerome]
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, “On Being Idle” (1886)
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