"The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man." — James Boswell

More Laziness Quotes

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• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other… — 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… — Jerome Bruner
• If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might… — 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:… — Lord Chesterfield
• Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere,… — Lord Chesterfield
• Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from… — Agatha Christie

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