Quotes About Laziness

I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.

Cooking fills me with a dread I can only describe as the sum total of every negative feeling I've ever had about myself. It takes my chronic impatience, divides it by my inherent laziness, and multiplies it to the power of my deepest self-loathing.

Indeed he had worn that piece of furniture - or symbol of bone-laziness - into such a shape as made the descent of any other body than his own into that crater of undulating horsehair a hazardous enterprise.

Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of negligent hands the house leaks. Ecclesiastes 10:18

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

La pereza es la madre de todos los vicios.

If you are like most human beings, you are one big procrastinator.

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

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

La pereza no es más que el hábito de descansar antes de cansarte

He yawned again, this time very loudly, and lazily opened his eyes. "I'm sorry I woke you up," she said quickly. "Was I sleeping?" She nodded. "So there really is a God," he muttered.

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

el mismo rencor cansado que olvida todos los agravios: por pereza de recordar.

Treating 'life' as an object to which we are more or less adequate excises crucial elements from life just at the very time that we are living it: such elements as sleep, rest, laziness, and the absence of labour, energy, and work. To say that these kinds of stasis are not living is not only to limit the plurality of life but to make it lopsided, tipping it towards the stresses that we find in modernity's cult of perpetual activity.

If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about it when it comes to attacking the root causes of the problem. Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim.

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key.

The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.

I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.

I'm the laziest person - that's my normal self. When I'm hanging around my house, I literally look like a tramp. I love being comfortable and having no make-up on.

The lazy man always does twice the work. (El bago siempre pasa double trabajo)

Conservation of energy," said Churchill, "Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

Most are inclined to recline into a reclining position, in order to enjoy the decline.