Quotes About Laziness

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?  ~ Ronald Reagan


That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.  ~ Horace


I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.  ~ Charles Lamb


Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.  ~ Robert A. Heinlein


Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.  ~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky


Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.  ~ Charles Dickens


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


The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer.  ~ Henry Clay


Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.  ~ Robert Maynard Hutchins


All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.  ~ Mark Kennedy


We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.  ~ Milton Friedman


There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.  ~ Herbert Prochnov