Laziness Quotations
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| Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. | |||
| - Edgar Bergen | |||
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| 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. | |||
| - Agatha Christie | |||
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| The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer. | |||
| - Henry Clay | |||
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| We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. | |||
| - Milton Friedman | |||
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| Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. | |||
| - Mahatma Gandhi | |||
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| Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. | |||
| - Hippocrates | |||
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| People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy. | |||
| - Bob Hope | |||
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| That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. | |||
| - Horace | |||
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| Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. | |||
| - Thomas Jefferson | |||
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| Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. | |||
| - Thomas ā Kempis | |||
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| Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. | |||
| - Soren Kierkegaard | |||
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| There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. | |||
| - Mary Wilson Little | |||
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| It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? | |||
| - Ronald Reagan | |||
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| Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. | |||
| - Jules Renard | |||
| Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. | |||
| - Jules Renard | |||
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| That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. | |||
| - Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus | |||
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| How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? | |||
| - Paul Sweeney | |||
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| The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others. | |||
| - Oscar Wilde | |||
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| I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy. | |||
| - Bern Williams | |||