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Laziness Quotes by Hannah More
- It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed,…
- Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.
- The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot…
More Laziness Quotes
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. — Henry Adams
- Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. — Natalie Clifford Barney
- Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. — Ambrose Bierce
- The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the… — Jerome Bruner
- If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well… — Mark Burnett
- Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. — Miguel de Cervantes
- Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put… — Lord Chesterfield
- Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come… — Lord Chesterfield
- Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness -… — Agatha Christie