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Laziness |
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Quotations
 | Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 8 likes |
 | Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 6 likes |
| The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 6 likes |
| Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 5 likes |
 | A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 4 likes |
 | I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates, 1955-, American businessman 4 likes |
 | I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 3 likes |
 | The lazy always have in mind to do something. — Vauvenargues, 1715-1747, French author of maxims 3 likes |
| It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 2 likes |
 | Idleness is only fatal to the mediocre. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 2 likes |
 | Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 2 likes |
 | Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
 | Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 2 likes |
 | Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation. — Robert Oxton Bolt, 1924-1955, British playwright 2 likes |
 | Water’s like me. It’s laaazy … Boy, it always looks for the easiest way to do things. |
 | Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. |
 | The right kind of leisure is better than the wrong kind of work. |
 | One monster there is in the world, the idle man. |
 | People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. |
 | There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. |
 | Nothing is more tiring than laziness. |
 | Bed is the perfect climate. |
 | If you trust in yourself.... and believe in your dreams.... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. |
 | A golden rule: do little. |
 | Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. |
 | Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. |
 | Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. |
 | A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. |
 | My ambition is handicapped by laziness. |
Bible Quotes
 | Those unwilling to work will not get to eat. — Epistles of Paul ‐ 2 Thessalonians 3:10 4 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | I tell ya, my dog is lazy. He don’t chase cars. He sits on the curb and takes down license plate numbers. — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 4 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | For the lazy it is always the holidays. Αεργοίς αιέν εορτά. — Theocritus, 3rd cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet 7 likes |
 | We must help the poor, not encourage idleness. Απορίαν γαρ δει βοηθείν, ουκ αργίαν εφοδιάζειν. — Solon, 630-560 BC, Ancient Greek lawmaker & philosopher 5 likes |
| Idleness is the mother of all evils. Αργία μήτηρ πάσης κακίας. — Solon, 630-560 BC, Ancient Greek lawmaker & philosopher 5 likes |
 | Daytime sleep indicates a distressed body or a troubled mind or laziness or lack of education. Ημερήσιοι ύπνοι σώματος όχλησιν ή ψυχής αδημοσύνην ή αργίην ή απαιδευσίην σημαίνουσι. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
 | Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. Έργον δ’ ουδέν όνειδος, αεργίη δε τ’ όνειδος. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet ‐ Works and Days -311 4 likes |
 | No one who is slack gains a good reputation; it is hard work that leads to excellence. Ουδείς ών ράθυμος ευκλεής ανήρ, άλλ’ οι πόνοι τίκτουσι την ευδοξίαν. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Archelaos 3 likes |
 | Birds love figs, but they don’t want to plant. Σύκα φίλ’ ορνίθεσσι, φυτεύειν δ’ ουκ εθέλουσι. — Athenaeus, 2nd-3rd cent. AD, Ancient Greek writer from Egypt |
Proverbs
 | It's sweet to do nothing. Dolce far niente. 4 likes |
| Those who sleep don't catch any fish. 2 likes |
