Laziness Quotes · Page 14

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

— Jeremy Taylor

I can't believe it's 2012 and there is still no fold button on my dryer.

— Anonymous

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

— Jorge Luis Borges

America hasn't seen lazy yet, wait until McDonalds start delivering.

— Jaylon Hillsman

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

— Anonymous

“Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.”

— Stephen Richards

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

— Benjamin Franklin

Morning: Laziness. Afternoon: Dying for a rest. Night: Can't sleep.

— Mee

“The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems.”

— Stephen Richards

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.

— Tom Odell

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

— John Bytheway

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

— Scott Westerfeld

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.

— William Shakespeare

“I'm a procrastinator and a lazy person by nature. However, I require the laziness for greatness.”

— Caspar Vega

It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.

— Anonymous

If there was an award for laziness I'd probably send somebody else to pick it up for me.

— Anonymous

We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be…

— Steven Pinker

A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior…

— H. L. Mencken

“If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium, It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink…

— Louis MacNeice

As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from…

— Rich Mullins

Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency,…

— Freya Stark

It's born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That's not the kind of stuff that gets you…

— Paul Newman

I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I…

— Ellen Barkin

Do not be lazy. Run each day's race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory…

— Basilea Schlink

A man who knows a thing, recognizes a given danger, and sees with his own eyes the possibility of a remedy, damned…

— George Lincoln Rockwell

I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher…

— William Cobbett

“Somebody has said that dust is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“The bigger the change you’re suggesting, the more it will sap people’s self-control. And when people exhaust their self-control, what they’re exhausting…

— Chip Heath

“Slackers were not well dressed, because there was no reason to dress smartly. Their uniform was old jeans, Converse trainers and warm,…

— J.M.R. Higgs

When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned…

— Gladys Bronwyn Stern

“Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.”

— Tim Ferriss

Nothing makes me more productive then the last minute.

— Anonymous

You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.

— Maxwell Rosenlicht

To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

— Fanny Lewald

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

— Anthony Hopkins

If we don't come apart; we will come apart.

— Vance Havner

'Do not machine wash or tumble dry.' really means I will never wash this ever.

— Anonymous

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

— Evan Esar