Laziness Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

  Plutarch

  Nice, Fall, Maturity

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• Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

  Freya Stark

  Daughter, War, Sleep

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.113, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict.

  Emily Carr

  Beach, Waiting, Way

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.247, D & M Publishers

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• I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Lazy, Asks

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• I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories.

  Tana French

  Hate, Accessories, Nostalgia

  "The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, Book 2)". Book by Tana French, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2008.

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• I don't like being in the UK for every other reason aside from the show. It's aesthetically uncomfortable to me on almost every level for reasons that might sound petty but I can't get past. The audiences are far more challenging and while I wouldn't say I prefer it, I certainly need it to ward off my inherent laziness.

  Doug Stanhope

  Past, Challenges, Levels

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• Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.

  M.C. Beaton

  Lazy, Awful, Talent

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• Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during that laziness is commonly a cage for unclean thoughts.

  Frances Osborne

  Lying, Sleep, Eye

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