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If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Time is valuable; people are busy.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

I'm busy all the time.

I'm busy, man, too busy. There's a lamentable absence of free time.

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.

My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.