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Quotes About Laziness

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
~ Johann G. Seume
Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent.
~ Richard Hammond
The first kind of laziness, comfort orientation, is based on our tendency to avoid inconvenience. We want to take a rest, to give ourselves a break.
~ Pema Chodron
In the 1880s, though, Douglass's fame still had to be couched in the racialized claim that he represented "the one, and apparently only one, exception to the general laziness and ignorance of the black population in the midst of which he was born.
~ David W. Blight
It's really easy to want to just sleep all day.
~ Camille Kostek
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
~ Idries Shah
Pereza - La pereza de la adolescencia es un ensayo para la incapacidad de la vejez.
~ Idries Shah
Entrepreneurs are, by definition, active types, so how is it that so much business writing sags with the passive voice? ...If you are using the passive voice to evade responsibility, start owning up. If you are using it out of habit or laziness, or because you just didn't think about it, start thinking about it.
~ Constance Hale
Alberta had always had many forms of idling. She frittered away her time with virtuosity.
~ Unknown
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends
~ Cyril Connolly
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
~ Cyril Connolly
Like many lazy people, once I started work I could not stop; perhaps that is why we avoid it.
~ Cyril Connolly
Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!
~ Toussaint Louverture
I would rather take a nap." "How could you possibly want a nap?" Pandora demanded, incredulous. "We've done nothing but sit all day." Cassandra was instantly defensive. "Doing nothing is exhausting. I need to rest in case we do nothing again later.
~ Lisa Kleypas
There is no night in the life of brave, just like there is much rest in the hearts of the lazy ones.
~ Auliq Ice
Im almost bored enough to clean. Keyword being ALMOST.
~ Unknown
Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts.
~ Stephen Vizinczey
Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
~ Viggo Mortensen
No matter how busy idle people are, they always find time for everything.
~ Unknown
Some people get up and go others just get up and goof.
~ Unknown
There are idlers and idlers, who form a contrast.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
~ Voltaire
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
~ Voltaire
I don't think the moral is good; and if any of you thuckeens go about imitating Anty in her laziness, you'll find it won't thrive with you as it did with her. She was beautiful beyond compare, which none of you are, and she had three powerful fairies to help her besides.
~ W.B. Yeats