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Quotes About Laziness

Ricky clearly never hurried, he was his own lazy happening.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
~ Octavia E. Butler
No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's always great if you don't have to get up and physically change the song that plays next.
~ Dr. Dre
Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.
~ Tom Wolfe
My skin is really sensitive, so I don't use too much on it. I'm actually really bad at washing my face. I get so lazy at night so I usually buy the Neutrogena wipes and it gets all the makeup off and its easy and that's the way to go. I hate washing my face, so I always use the wipes.
~ Ashley Benson
The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.
~ Eden Sher
He sighed. "So I've gone and revealed how much I admire your work for nothing. Now you'll feel free to laze about self-importantly, I suppose!" "Viridius, no," I said, stepping toward him and impulsively kissing his balding head. "I'm well aware that that's your job." "Damned right," he grumpily. "And I've earned it, too.
~ Rachel Hartman
I don't agree with any form of butler, so definitely not a robot one. It's lazy, so a bad idea.
~ Kano
I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.
~ David Morrissey
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.
~ Tommy Shaw
I am a very lazy man, so, for me, the dream is to be at home on the chair with my family.
~ Andrea Bocelli
I've never been in charge. I'm just a lazy bastard.
~ Mark Lanegan
Generally speaking, I'm lazy. I really don't like to do anything but sit around and chill out and watch TV, but if it's something I like, if it's something I'm into, then no one can outwork me.
~ Montel Vontavious Porter
Sidda was tired of being vigilant, alert, sharp. She longed for porch friendship, for the sticky, hot sensation of familiar female legs thrown over hers in companionship. She pined for the girlness of it all, the unplanned, improvisational laziness. She wanted to soak the words time management out of her lexicon. She wanted to hand over, to yield, to let herself float down into the uncharted beautiful fertile musky swamp of life, where creativity and eroticism and deep intelligence dwell.
~ Rebecca Wells
LAZINESS WILL STOP your progress in your spiritual practice. One can be deceived by three types of laziness: the laziness of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.
~ Renuka Singh
I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.
~ Julie Schumacher
Diligence in some compels idleness in others.
~ Karl Marx
It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.
~ Karl Marx
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
~ Lord Chesterfield
The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.
~ Roger L'Estrange
Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.
~ Albert J. Nock
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
~ James Boswell
To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.
~ James Ellis