Quotes About Laziness

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

If I won the award for laziness, I'd send somebody to pick it up for me.

My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.

I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories,

I'm not sure what exactly I did for those two years. A lot of the time, I think, nothing. I know this is one of the unthinkable taboos of our society, but I had discovered in myself a talent for a wonderful, unrepentant laziness, the kind most people never know after childhood.

My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.

I have a life, goddamit. One life. I've seen too many people give theirs up, to drugs or suicide or even depression... fuck, even just lazinesss. I've seen lives wasted. I'll be damned if I'm going to waste mine.

Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not said to a cat, "Do come in!

A masmorra escura. É o teu futuro. A preguiça, o prazer, que precipícios! Não fazer nada, é um lúgubre partido a tomar, sabes? Viver ocioso da substância social! Ser inútil, ou seja, nocivo! Isso conduz directamente ao fundo da miséria.

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

Jehová, el dios barbado y huraño, dio a sus adoradores el supremo ejemplo de la pereza ideal; después de seis días de trabajo, descansó por toda la eternidad

Well, I'm a Lovelace. My family quit Shadowhunting due to laziness in the 1700s.

You know what a fate looks like, don't you? It's just a little toy version of yourself, made out of alabaster and emerald and a little bit of lapis lazuli and ambition and coincidence and regret and everyone else's expectations and laziness and hope and where you're born and who to and everything you're afraid of plus everything that's afraid of you.

I quickly dressed in my shorts and a t-shirt, before my lazy side could convince me if God wanted us to exercise, He wouldn't have invented the Lifetime Channel.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.