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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.
Criss Jami
Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.
Stephen Richards
It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.
Edmundo de Amicis
A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
Proverb
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.
H. L. Mencken
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Robert Burton
If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
Joan Welsh
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
Horace
He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. Proverbs 18:9
Bible
The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. Proverbs 20:4
If a man will not work, he shall not eat.
Some men are so lazy they won't even feed themselves.
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.
Albert Einstein
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie, An Autobiograph
I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
Matthew Broderick
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
Johann G. Seume
The only menace is inertia.
St. John Perse
