Laziness Quotes - Page 21

• For the lazy, all work is difficult.

  Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

  Lazy, Difficult

  Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (2016). “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze”, p.211, Macmillan

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• Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

  Dagmar Godowsky

  Lying, Hard Work, Lazy People

  Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

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• Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Lazy, Dare

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• Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

  Elbert Hubbard

  Work, Effort, Lazy

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen”, p.369, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.

  Mason Cooley

  Lazy, Rotation, Earth

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• When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

  C. S. Lewis

  Intellectual, Secret, Listening

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

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• Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.

  Albert Camus

  Ideas, Made, Alienation

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• There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

  John Steinbeck

  Kindness, Confusion, Effort

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.65, Penguin

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• I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.

  John Steinbeck

  Taken, Hangover, Sleep

  "Travels With Charley: In Search of America". Book by John Steinbeck, Part 1, 1962.

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• Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

  Galen

  Blood

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• In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this journey which memory forgets. One must, when this is impossible, write or draw without responding to the romantic solicitations of pain, without enjoying suffering like music, tieing a pen to one's foot if need be, helping the doctors who can learn nothing from laziness.

  Jean Cocteau

  Pain, Memories, Believe

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• The idle man is the devil's cushion.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Devil, Idle

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.60

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• But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

  Bill McKibben

  Tolerance, Moral

  Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc

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• I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  World, Want, Today

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.75, New Directions Publishing

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• The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.

  Frantz Fanon

  Struggle, Class, People

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

  Orson Welles

  Television, Late, American Movie

  "Orson Welles' criticisms of fellow actors and directors found on lost tapes" by Dalya Alberge, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2013.

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• They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

  William Faulkner

  Men, White Man, Justice

  The Bear pt. 4 (1932)

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• Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

  Plutarch

  Luxury, Mind, Use

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.280, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.

  Jeremy Collier

  Honesty, Book, Mean

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• The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Evil, Battle, Weakness

  Alexander McCall Smith (2005). “Friends, Lovers, Chocolate”, Pantheon

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• The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Memories, Book, Giving

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• I think there's a tremendous sense of complacency in the LGBT community. AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when it swept through the world in the '80s. Today's generation sees it more as something to live with and something to be much less fearful of. And that comes with a sense of, dare I say, laziness. We need to be really vigilant and open about the fact that these drugs are not to be taken to increase our ability to have recreational sex.

  Zachary Quinto

  Sex, Taken, Thinking

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• I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!

  Meg Cabot

  Princess, Lazy, Diaries

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• Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."

  Bernard Williams

  Spring, Winter, Fever

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• A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

  Napoleon Hill

  Dream, Ambition, Desire

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.28, Penguin

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