LAZINESS QUOTES
quotations about laziness
Let's be real here: Laziness is not going to bring you a gorgeous home, the career of your dreams, an amazing spouse or a beautiful life.
EVA GUTIERREZ
"3 Ways To Fight Off Your Never-Ending Case Of Winter Laziness", Elite Daily, January 25, 2016
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The Way to Wealth
An idler is a watch that wants both hands;
As useless when it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPER
Retirement
If I won the award for laziness, I'd send somebody to pick it up for me.
ANONYMOUS
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
WILLIAM COWPER
Retirement
Lazy folks take the most pains.
J. W. MONETTE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Table Talk
The Bible is clear that, because the Lord ordained work for man, laziness is sin.
S. MICHAEL HOUDMANN
Got Questions? Bible Questions Answered
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Lectures to Young Men on Various Important Subjects
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
JULES RENARD
attributed, Eat These Words
When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Progress doesn't come from early risers -- progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Time Enough for Love
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
CHARLES DICKENS
Barnaby Rudge
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Laziness is definitely a negative energy, a strong negative action, actually. I see two kinds of laziness, Eastern laziness and Western laziness. I have Eastern laziness. If I get a nice cup of tea and a nice, warm little spot with maybe a nice book to read, I will sit there and won't move!... Western laziness is busy-ness. You Westerners don't have that problem of sitting idle. You don't want to sit idle, unless you are sick. If you sit on the bed, people will ask, "Are you sick?" If you don't move, they presume you are sick. Western laziness is to keep yourself so busy you don't do what you are supposed to do.
GELEK RIMPOCHE
Transforming Negativities
Laziness is the enemy of virtue, and the very train of all wickedness.
PATRICK FLEMING
attributed, Day's Collacon
The lazy man is usually an ideal man, for he lives on theory, sleeps on hope, and dies in despair.
J. W. CROKER
attributed, Day's Collacon
You can't teach people to be lazy--either they have it, or they don't.
CHIC YOUNG
Blondie
Chronic laziness may have an evolutionary basis: Consider our homo erectus forebears' need to covet calories (or just look at a cat). But we live in an age of plenty and the reflex to avoid work has become more dangerous than the risk of running out of fuel.
YASMIN TAYAG
"Medicating Laziness One Espresso (and Some Ritalin or Modafinil) at a Time", Inverse, November 12, 2015
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
ANNE FRANK
The Diary of a Young Girl