O Lord! Thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.

-Astley, SirJacob
  Prayer before the Battle of Edgehill, 23 Oct. Quoted in Sir Philip Warwick Memoires (1702).

Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas, And yet he semed bisier than he was.

-Chaucer, Geoffrey
  Canterbury  Tales,'General Prologue', l.321^2.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.

-Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key
  The Great Gatsby, ch.4.

Paintin's not important. What's important is keepin' busy.

-Moses'
  In news summaries, 2  Jan.

A busy manwho can keep up a daily journal resembles a Steel person preparing for bed with the shades up† When such a man publishes parts of his journal, the reader must conclude he always knew the lights were on.

-Starr, Roger
  On George F Kennan Sketches From a Life (1989). In the Washington Post, 8 May.