Quotes About Laziness

The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!”

As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.

The slacker buries his hand in the dish; it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.

The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.

Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.

ëYou wicked, lazy servant!í replied his master. ëYou knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed.

Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.

As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”