Laziness Quotes

Sloth is the key to poverty.

Proverb

By doing nothing we learn to do ill.

Proverb

He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers.

Proverb

The hardest work of all is to do nothing.

Proverb

The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

William Cowper

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Bernard Mandeville

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten -- before the end is told -- even if there happens to be any end to it.

Joseph Conrad

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

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Anne Baxter

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.

Proverb

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.

Benjamin Franklin

Expect poison from standing water.

William Blake

Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.

Albert Camus

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Hannah More

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

Samuel Johnson

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Samuel Johnson

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Samuel Johnson

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Jean Paul

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

Percy Wynham Lewis