“ Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ”
- Edgar Bergen- Copy
- 755
“ Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. ”
- Floyd Dell- Copy
- 389
“ Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. ”
- Hippocrates- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. ”
- Jules Renard- Copy
- 4K
“ Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ”
- Jules Renard- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 994
“ There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. ”
- Mary Wilson Little- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather -- that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times. ”
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
- 2K
“ Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. ”
- Thomas a Kempis- Copy
- 2.2K
“ He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
- 2.1K
“ A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. ”
- Jules Renard- Copy
- 2.4K
“ 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. ”
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton- Copy
- 1.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ”
- Jules Renard- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I like the word `indolence.' it makes my laziness seem classy. ”
- Bern Williams- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. ”
- Jules Renard- Copy
- 96
“ Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails. ”
- Robert Half- Copy
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