Quotes About Laziness

It occurs to me that, just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans bring in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.

Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

Laziness pays off overnight however hard work pays off through out your life.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

If laying in my bed for the rest of the day is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

Sitting in your towel for ages because you're too lazy to get dressed.

enjoying the unexpected warmth, lumbered lazily

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

When people try to evade problems you first have to ask if it is not just laziness. Jung once said, "Laziness is the greatest passion of mankind, even greater than power or sex or anything." (p. 77)

Ai, que preguiça!

In a culture where busyness is a fetish and stillness is laziness, rest is sloth. But without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

Do you ever take a holiday? Like, do any of you just wake up and think 'Today feels like a pyjama day.'? or is it always, 'Today is a good day for murdering and stalking.'?

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

If a man can eat his fill and have a willing bedmate in the same place every night, he quickly grows lazy.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

All play and no work make Jack a poor boy.

All play and no work makes Jack a poor boy.

Self-awareness plays a key role in stopping fear and laziness from standing in the way of accepting a reality that must be accepted in order to make the best of a bad situation.

Veja você, meu sobrinho: um boi. Dentro de água, um boi será que nada? Não, ele apenas se perguiça na corrente. A esperteza do boi é levar a água a trabalhar na viagem dele.