LAZINESS QUOTES
quotations about laziness
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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.
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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