Laziness Quotes

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.

I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to...

Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of hol...

How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of t...

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, ...

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poult...

New Rule: Apple's next device must be a computer that you control with your tongue. Thanks for elimi...

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more.

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sens...

I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). ...

I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am theref...

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with al...

The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; t...

The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terr...

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long sinc...

So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back ...

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grav...

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yo...

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic:...

My route, Sior Francis—and don't be surprised when you hear it—my route when I set out to find God.....

As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading...

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do somethin...

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranq...

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us...

But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do no...

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future...