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Quotes About Laziness

Why work when you can fill out a few forms and get paid for doing nothing?
~ Alan Sugar
I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.
~ Barbara Park
When we just hang around, our pants are always sagging.
~ Lisa Lopes
'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
~ Isaac Watts
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
~ Mark Kennedy
I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
~ Ram Charan
I just don't bake, it's something I don't do. It's just so easy to walk to the shop.
~ Scarlett Moffatt
Energy begets energy. If you are lazy, you will always be lazy. And if you retire at 60, you will die at 65.
~ Dev Anand
The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.
~ Jon Stewart
His imprecision and laziness maddened my compulsive instincts—his patchiness, the way even his speech was riddled with drop-outs and glitches like a worn cassette, the way his leaden senses refused the world
~ Jonathan Lethem
Separated from the sphere of divine worship, of the cult of the divine, and from the power it radiates, leisure is as impossible as the celebration of a feast. Cut off from the worship of the divine, leisure becomes laziness and work inhuman.
~ Josef Pieper
The middle was where it was too easy to be lazy and cynical at the same time.
~ A. Lee Martinez
Making efforts was not exactly my forte. I always had great ideas, of course. I would have been perfect for a think tank. Think tanks are a thing, right? Organizations where people sit around and come up with solutions to the world's problems? I would have been a shoo-in for one of those. However, if do-tanks are also a thing—as in, organizations that actually do shit—then you would have had to count me out. On account of, well, laziness.
~ Aaron Starmer
My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.
~ Jim Gaffigan
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
~ Pliny (the Younger)
A lazy man is the devils handyman. #Business
~ Proverb
Do you not see that by your methods of teaching, framed by a ministry for 8 million scholars, who represent 8 million different capacities, you only impose a system good for mediocrities, conceived by an average of mediocrities? Your school becomes a university of laziness, as your prison is a university of crime.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
People speak of laziness or crime, without giving themselves the trouble to analyse the cause. They are in a hurry to punish these faults without inquiring if the punishment itself does not contain a premium on 'laziness' or 'crime'. This is why a free society, if it saw the number of idlers increasing in its midst, would no doubt think of looking first for the cause of laziness, in order to suppress it, before having recourse to punishment.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
Alguien ha dicho que el polvo es la materia que no está en su sitio. La misma definición se aplica a las nueve décimas de los llamados perezosos.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.
~ Tina Louise
I kind of waited for opportunities to be handed to me. I think I was lazy, and when things didn't go right, I just said, 'Oh well.'
~ Jennifer Coolidge
It's terrible, I know, but I will admit I was a really lazy kid. It was Bronte who would wake me up in the morning, go to training early, and take in some tips from the older training group. I would be there grumbling and complaining. After she began to reap the rewards of her labour, it definitely kindled a fire.
~ Cate Campbell
I just want to get paid to lay down, wake up when I want to wake up, go to sleep when I want to go to sleep, and my money just be there. I just want to make the most doing the least.
~ Blueface
I couldn't be bothered with the whole shaving-every-couple-of-days routine.
~ Mario Kempes