Laziness Quotes - Page 13

• No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.

  Washington Irving

  Men, Sloth, Idlers

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more”, p.1110, e-artnow

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• The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.

  James Boswell

  Men, Sloth, Scent

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• I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is a paradise in and around you right now, and to be there you don't even have to make a move. There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened. All potential experiences are within you already. You can open up to them at any time.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Believe, Moving

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.114, Gibbs Smith

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• Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial Egyptian anthem "Bokra, Insha'allah, Malesh" (Tomorrow, God Willing, Never Mind) isn't just an excuse for laziness. In a society requiring millennial patience, it is also a social code dictating that no one make too much of a fuss about things. But put an Egyptian in the driver's seat and he shows all the calm and consideration of a hooded swordsman delivering Islamic justice.

  Tony Horwitz

  Islamic, Justice, Car

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• Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.

  Steven Morrissey

  Determination, Animal, Order

  "Autobiography" by Steven Morrissey, London: Penguin Classics, 2013.

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• The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

  Richard Steele

  Doing Nothing, Labor

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• Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Children, Lying, Normal

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• Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.

  Michael Horton

  Attachment, Leader, Excellence

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

  Kajol

  Home, Sloth, Wish

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• The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

  Paul Cezanne

  Friendship, Sun, Distant Friend

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• Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Lazy, Sloth

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That's not the kind of stuff that gets you an entry in the distinguished book of culinary records. Being known for great soufflé is one thing but a good hamburger? What would they say? "Yeah, he really knew how to put the cheese on."

  Paul Newman

  Book, Popcorn, Records

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• I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.

  Michael E. DeBakey

  Thinking, Tolerance, Littles

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

  Edmondo De Amicis

  Dream, Sleep, Feelings

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• If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Men, Lazy

  "Untimely Meditations". "Schopenhauer as educator," § 3.1, p. 128. Book by Friedrich Nietzsche (1876), translated by R. J. Hollingdale, 1983.

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• The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  May, Disease, Causes

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• Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Sloth, Paradise

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Paradise, Divine

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• Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

  Hosea Ballou

  Tree, Sap, Emptiness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sea, Virtue, Idleness

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Idle, Idleness

  Samuel Johnson (1826). “The Rambler (1750-'52) a. the Idler (1758-'60)”

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• My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

  Jim Gaffigan

  People, Guy, Comic

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• A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel--until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Emotional, Erosion

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.103, Penguin

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• Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Reform, Way, Ants

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• Hard work pays off in the future but requires discomfort now. Laziness pays off now but guarantees discomfort in the future.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Guarantees

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Sep 15, 2014

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