Laziness Quotes - Page 17

• When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.

  Evan Esar

  Tongue

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• The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.

  Evan Esar

  World, Trouble

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• For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

  Alain de Botton

  Understanding, Bob, Purpose

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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• My comedy is romanticized laziness.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Comedy

  "Q&A With Jim Gaffigan: ‘Hot Pocket’ Comedian Reaches Out to Our Wounded Soldiers (VIDEO)". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Faith, Intellectual, Negative

  "Stranger in a Strange Land " by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 233), 1991.

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• Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.

  George Eliot

  Luck, Mind, Use

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.143, George Eliot

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• The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Work, Devil

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.166

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• Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

  Isaac Barrow

  Hands, Design, Bed

  Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “Works”, p.308

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• To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

  James Ellis

  Ambition, Blessing, Men

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• It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.

  Washington Allston

  Evil, Lazy, Delay

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• I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.

  William Cobbett

  Drinking, Beer, Views

  "Cottage Economy". Book by William Cobbett, 1821.

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• Deep down I'm a lazy person in a constantly moving body.

  Eva LaRue

  Moving, Lazy, Body

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• The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.

  Erik Naggum

  Believe, Ultimate, Ifs

  Re: Lisp as glue language? (Usenet article), groups.google.com. November 21, 2000.

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• Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It is a badge of distinction, an emblem of success, without having to say too much about it. It labels us, affords us kudos, and raises our profile in the "pecking order" of our fellow troglodytes. It says to others, "See, I've done so well that I can afford to do nothing at all whenever I so choose!

  Al Gini

  Order, Luxury, Rights

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• Laziness means more work in the long run.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Mean, Long

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.

  Albert Camus

  Atheism, Able, Wells

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• I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

  Nick Offerman

  Technology, Thinking, Way

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.

  Nick Offerman

  Baby, Wall, Adults

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hard Work, Men, Play

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• Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Ignorance, Character, Vanity

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Volume II, Chapter XI, 1688.

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• I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Persons

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• Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Sloth, Movement, World

  Wendy Wasserstein (2005). “Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.19, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• But poverty, with most who whimper forth
  Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe;
  The effect of laziness, or sottish write.

  William Cowper

  Writing, Self, Long

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.233

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• The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round. Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland, but these cannot operate the whole time: on the whole, the landowner leaves his tenants and work-people to make their own mistakes, while he makes his.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Sports, Mistake, Two

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• it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

  Jane Austen

  Youth, Sofas, Tricks

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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