Quotes about laziness

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

— Bible

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

— Bible

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

— Bible

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

— Bible

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

— Ambrose Bierce

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

— Matthew Broderick

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.

— Thomas Buxton

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

— Mortimer Caplan

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

— Miguel De Cervantes

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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

— Benjamin Franklin

The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

— Napoleon Hill

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

— Horace

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

— Kin Hubbard

A loafer always has the correct time.

— Kin Hubbard

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

— Samuel Johnson

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.

— John Keats

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

— Bernard Mandeville

The only menace is inertia.

— St. John Perse

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

— Tom Petty

By doing nothing we learn to do ill.

— Proverb

Sloth is the key to poverty.

— Proverb

A young man idle, an old man needy.

— English Proverb

Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.

— German Proverb

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.

— Indian Proverb

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

— Norwegian Proverb

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

— Jules Renard

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

— Lorne Sanny

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it.

— Thomas Taylor

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

The idle always have a mind to do something.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

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

— Richard Weaver

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

— Joan Welsh