Talk:Laziness

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• Why pick the fruit from the tree when someone can pick it for you?
  • Anonymous

• I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
  • Bernie Williams

• To cease to act is to cease to exist.
  • Voltaire (attributed)

• Laziness lends assistance to fatigue.
  • Anonymous

• Laziness pays off today, work only tomorrow.
  • Anonymous

• A lazy man looks for light employment.
  • Anonymous

• The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
  • John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury

• The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow.
  • Norwegian proverbs

• Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
  • Jimmy Lyons

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

• The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
  • W. C. Fields

• Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it.
  • Thomas Taylor

• Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
  • Thomas Jefferson

• A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
  • Cyril Connolly

• There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
  • Charles Spurgeon

• Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
  • Benjamin Franklin

• Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.
  • Thomas Buxton

• Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
  • Henry Ford

• For I must go where lazy Peace
  Will hide her drowsy head;
  And, for the sport of kings, increase
  The number of the dead.
  • William Davenant

• Laziness is a virtue. Those who can be bothered to tell you otherwise are clearly lacking it.
  • Emery Finkelstein