Laziness Quotes
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Absence of occupation is not rest. A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
william cowper— William Cowper, Retirement (1782), Line 623
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
jerome k. jerome— Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, "On Being Idle" (1886).
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
— Horace, Satires
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.
— Henry Ward Beecher, p. 345. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
agatha christie— An Autobiography (1977)
At ease in a world in which my Lord was such a sufferer!
— William Mountford, p. 344. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The idle man is the devil's cushion.
— Bishop Hall, p. 345. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.
— Richard Cecil, p. 345. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.
— Charles Spurgeon, p. 345. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one."
— Charles Spurgeon, p. 346. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims (1746)
