Laziness Quotes

Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure has become entertainment.

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

Benjamin Franklin

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Benjamin Franklin

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

Benjamin Franklin

The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

Napoleon Hill

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Samuel Johnson

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

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Tom Petty

A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel--until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.

Ayn Rand, The Voice of Reason

A young man idle, an old man needy.

English Proverb

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

English Proverb

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

The way to be nothing is to do nothing.

Nathaniel Howe

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

Sidney Madwed

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Benjamin Franklin

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Benjamin Franklin