Quotes About Laziness

We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..

Jelly-bean is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular- - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

I think of myself as the queen of lounging. No lounge queen is complete without lounge clothes and house wigs.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

I am terribly lazy . So, if I don't have to get out of the house, I will sleep away the entire day.

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

What shall you do all your vacation?', asked Amy. I shall lie abed and do nothing, replied Meg.

I hate email. It's so slow. On email it's never now. It's always then, which is why it's so easy to get lazy and let your inbox fill up.

Cleaning bored her. She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.

But the present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Erik was always amazed how exhausting it was to sit on your ass and not move.

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

Mio caro, in questa banale faccenda ho nuovamente verificato che a questo mondo l'incomprensione e la pigrizia causano più errori dell'astuzia e della malvagità. O perlomeno, queste ultime sono di certo più rare.

Il malumore e la pigrizia sono in tutto simili, perché il malumore è una specie di pigrizia. A questa siamo portati per natura, e tuttavia se troviamo la forza per reagire ecco che il lavoro diviene agevole e l'attività un vero piacere.

Los malentendidos y la pereza quizá causan más extravíos en este mundo que la astucia y la perversidad. Al menos, estas dos últimas cosas ciertamente que son más raras

Man is too prone, at best, to seek the way that's easy, He soon grows fond of unconditioned rest;

I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.