Quotes About Laziness

The hardest work is to go idle.

Idleness is the mother of vice.

You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate.

It's Saturday — should I just sit down and do nothing or lay down and do nothing?

Be useful each day and take control of your own health. Laziness and apathy can settle into your spirit if you aren't paying attention.

Laß uns faul in allen Sachen, nur nicht faul zu Lieb und Wein, nur nicht faul zur Faulheit sein.

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An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.'

Part of my procrastination was down to leaving things to the last moment in case of a civilization-spinning idea popping up after I'd started work. Of course, this envisaged procrastination might be hard to spot in my monumental laziness, like a fish's tears in an ocean.

Why endure verticality when you can be horizontal?

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

He could talk through twenty cigarettes on any topic that you brought up. And he never sat up when he could lie down; and never stood when he could sit.

The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.

it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising out memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room

And Bear absolutely refused to eat humans while they were still alive, with the feeble excuse that when they weren't dead they made too much noise and moved around too much. To Yaga, that was just another proof of Bear's laziness. Godhood was assigned to the most unworthy people.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

He was not easily brought to recognize any ethical sanctions in work as such but tended to work as the results pleased him and refused to work or sought to refuse when he did not find the spiritual returns adequate; thus he was easily accused of laziness and driven as a slave when in truth he brought to modern manual labor a renewed valuation of life.

On a beautiful day like this it would be best to stay in bed so you wouldn't get up and spoil it!

Idleness is the beginning of all vices.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.