Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way.” — William James Moore Copy Share Image
The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing things you can’t do is just sensible.” — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Everybody knows how lazy he is. One day the neighbors saw Fang mow the lawn and I got three Get Well cards. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Excuses are admissions of lack of Faith, lack of appreciation, lack of love, and an open confession of laziness!” — Catholic Way Publishing Copy Share Image
Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness -… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon to meet pastors' wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
The only thing that might make me stay in bed would be fear. Once I get rest, then I can overcome the… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Emma Thompson and her husband, Greg Wise, have become citizens of Venice. I'm not sure whether it's just laziness, or fear of… — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Laziness can be a value on its own for those who want to show supremacy through contempt for work and wish to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live… — Jack London Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle… — Moby Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the preaching of dour labourists, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with a bit of laziness. Great philosophers through the ages… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“Matter is lazy. It resists change. It wants to keep on doing whatever it's doing, whether that's sitting still or moving. We… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
