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LAZINESS QUOTES

quotations about laziness

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, The Way to Wealth

He who knows how to loaf is wiser than three sages.

ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims

You are only as lazy or lacking in willpower as you think you are.

KEN CHRISTIAN, Your Own Worst Enemy

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

CHARLES DICKENS, Barnaby Rudge

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Moral Maxims and Reflections

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

ANNE FRANK, The Diary of a Young Girl

Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.

GEORGE ELIOT, Adam Bede

Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It is a badge of distinction, an emblem of success, without having to say too much about it. It labels us, affords us kudos, and raises our profile in the "pecking order" of our fellow troglodytes. It says to others, "See, I've done so well that I can afford to do nothing at all whenever I so choose!

AL GINI, The Importance of Being Lazy

Laziness prevents more crimes than morality.

ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims

Idleness buries a man alive.

JOHN THORNTON, Maxims and Directions for Youth

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

It is better to be idle than employed in ill.

NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections


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