Laziness
» “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.”
– Bible
» ”Some men are so lazy they won’t even feed themselves.”
– Bible
» ”The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]“
– Bible
» ”He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. [Proverbs 18:9]“
– Bible
» ”Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.”
– Ambrose Bierce
» ”I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.”
– Matthew Broderick
» ”Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.”
– Thomas Buxton
» ”Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”
– Mortimer Caplan
» ”Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.”
– Miguel De Cervantes
» ”A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.”
– Cyril Connolly
» ”A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”
– Benjamin Franklin
» ”Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.”
– Benjamin Franklin
» ”The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.”
– Napoleon Hill
» ”You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.”
– Horace
» ”A loafer always has the correct time.”
– Kin Hubbard
» ”Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.”
– Kin Hubbard
» ”Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.”
– Samuel Johnson
» ”My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness — if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor — but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.”
– John Keats
» ”We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.”
– Bernard Mandeville
» ”The only menace is inertia.”
– St. John Perse
» ”I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.”
– Tom Petty
» ”By doing nothing we learn to do ill.”
– Proverb
» ”Sloth is the key to poverty.”
– Proverb
» ”A young man idle, an old man needy.”
– English Proverb
» ”Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.”
– German Proverb
» ”It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.”
– Indian Proverb
» ”The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow.”
– Norwegian Proverb
» ”Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.”
– Jules Renard
» ”We have so many labor-saving devices today that we go broke keeping them repaired. Everything is easier, but requires greater maintenance.”
– Lorne Sanny
» ”There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.”
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
» ”Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it.”
– Thomas Taylor
» ”Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.”
– Marquis De Vauvenargues
» ”The idle always have a mind to do something.”
– Marquis De Vauvenargues
» ”Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.”
– Richard Weaver
» ”If you’re coasting, you’re either losing momentum or else you’re headed downhill.”
– Joan Welsh
