Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
That man is idle who can do something better.
Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.
Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.
It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.
A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. Proverbs 18:9
If a man will not work, he shall not eat.
Some men are so lazy they won't even feed themselves.
The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. Proverbs 20:4
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Matthew 9:37
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
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