Laziness Quotes

Fortunately, going to the movies seems to suddenly qualify as an intellectual accomplishment, on par with reading a book or devoting time to serious thought. It's not that the movies have gotten any more strenuous, it's just that a lot of people are as lazy as I am, and together we've agreed to lower the bar.

Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.

Human nature is above all things - lazy.

Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Games are the last resort of those who do not know how to idle.

Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

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

You know, I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with 'em later.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Writers can redeem a wasted day in two minutes; alas this knowledge leads them to waste their day like no one else.

But if you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study…

It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.

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

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.