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Quote:Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.[Henry Thoreau]

Quote:The reason gas stations sell food, of course, is that the supermarkets are busy cashing checks. The supermarkets have to cash checks because the banks are busy mailing unsolicited credit cards to everybody in the Western Hemisphere. The result is that very few people fix cars.[Dave Barry]

Quote:Get busy living, or get busy dying.[Stephen King]

Quote: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]

Quote:Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.[George Burns]

Quote:Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.[John Lennon]

Quote:Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote: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]

Quote:If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.[Andrew Carnegie]

Quote:Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. [Seneca]

Quote:He not busy being born is busy dying. [Bob Dylan]

Quote: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. [Eugene McCarthy]



Definitions of: busy

Definition: Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant.

Definition: Constantly at work; diligent; active.

Definition: Crowded with business or activities; -- said of places and times; as, a busy street.

Definition: Officious; meddling; foolish active.

Definition: Careful; anxious.

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