Quotes about laziness

"The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]"

Bible on laziness   

"Some men are so lazy they won't even feed themselves."

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"If a man will not work, he shall not eat."

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"He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. [Proverbs 18:9]"

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"Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree."

Bierce, Ambrose on laziness   

"I slip from workaholic to bum real easy."

Broderick, Matthew on laziness
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"Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish."

Buxton, Thomas on laziness   

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."

Caplan, Mortimer on laziness
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"Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish."

Cervantes, Miguel De on laziness   

"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends."

Connolly, Cyril on laziness
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"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."

Franklin, Benjamin on laziness
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"Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him."

Franklin, Benjamin on laziness
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"The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked."

Hill, Napoleon on laziness
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"You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren."

Horace on laziness   

"Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience."

Hubbard, Kin on laziness   

"A loafer always has the correct time."

Hubbard, Kin on laziness   

"Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise."

Johnson, Samuel on laziness   

"My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness -- if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor -- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me."

Keats, John on laziness   

"We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service."

Mandeville, Bernard on laziness   

"The only menace is inertia."

Perse, St. John on laziness   

"I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy."

Petty, Tom on laziness   

"By doing nothing we learn to do ill."

Proverb on laziness   

"Sloth is the key to poverty."

Proverb on laziness
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"A young man idle, an old man needy."

Proverb, English on laziness   

"Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy."

Proverb, German on laziness
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"It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all."

Proverb, Indian on laziness   

"The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow."

Proverb, Norwegian on laziness
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"Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."

Renard, Jules on laziness
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"We have so many labor-saving devices today that we go broke keeping them repaired. Everything is easier, but requires greater maintenance."

Sanny, Lorne on laziness   

"There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on laziness
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"Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it."

Taylor, Thomas on laziness   

"Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on laziness
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"The idle always have a mind to do something."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on laziness   

"Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay."

Weaver, Richard on laziness   

"If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill."

Welsh, Joan on laziness
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