Saw these lines years ago. They pry me outta my sofa's death grip when I should be proactively doing rather than passively observing. Jay Nash writing in 1938:

"The machine age has, of course, already supplied an unexampled wealth of leisure and what happens? The average man who has time on his hands turns out to be a spectator, a watcher of somebody else, merely because that is the easiest thing."