Quotes About Laziness and Sayings

Laziness Quotes And Sayings

“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”
―Benjamin Franklin

“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no
procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
―Lord Chesterfield

“Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it,
and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give
it up as unattainable.”
― Lord Chesterfield

“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
― Jules Renard

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison

“From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but
occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge.”
― Jarod Kintz

“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly
also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”
― Agatha Christie

“Sometimes I do smart things. Sometimes I do dumb things. Most of the time I don't do anything.”
― Gorilla Rising Hintz

“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
― Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading
magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can
to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.
Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.”
― Paul Rudnick

“Efficiency is intelligent laziness.”
― David Dunham

“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

“Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--
tomorrow”
― Gloria Pitzer

“I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness.”
― Bill Callahan

“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.”
― Stephen Richards

“I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of
eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally
gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are
irresistibly drained.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with
his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience
to being served like a king.”
― Criss Jami

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