| Author |
Quotes |
| Agatha Christie | 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. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. |
| Benjamin Franklin | A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. |
| Bob Hope | People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. |
| David Dunham | Efficiency is intelligent laziness. |
| George Borrow | It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. |
| Granni Nazzano | My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others. |
| Grenville Kleiser | Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body. |
| H Ogilvie | The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further. |
| Isaac Watts | For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. |
| Jules Renard | Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. |
| Jules Renard | Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others. |
| Kahlil Gibran | The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master |
| Kin Hubbard | Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable. |
| Lord Chesterfield | 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 | 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. |
| R t Wombat | The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one. |
| William Hazlitt | Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy. |
| Oscar Wilde | To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. |
| Unknown | A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion. |
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