Quotations about

Laziness

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

—Jules Renard

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

—Robert A. Heinlein

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

—Don Marquis

Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.

—Randy K. Milholland

It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.

—Darby Conley

Percentage wise, it is 100% easier not to do things than to do them, and so much fun not to do them—especially when you were supposed to do them. In terms of instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.

—John Mulaney

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

—Robert A. Heinlein

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

—Jerome K. Jerome

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

—Bob Hope

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

The worst indictment I ever heard from my father was when he'd say of another man, "He's so lazy he stinks.

—Joseph Bathanti

Idleness and lack of occupation tend—nay are dragged—towards evil.

—Hippocrates

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

—Jules Renard

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

—Mahatma Gandhi

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

—Mary Wilson Little