Quotes about laziness

The task that lies before me is daunting and the rewards are uncertain. I should probably let someone else do it.

She had found that her wits became dull if she got too cozy.

Suddenly, it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.

“I’ve met people like him.” Garth nodded sagely. “Men of customary inaction who can be spurred to sporadic excess. Such men often start ill-planned projects that they lack either energy to complete or the wit to abandon.”

Thread and needles. To sew, so Mama had said, a cap of wisdom, a thinking cap. If one wanted a thinking cap. Mama hadn’t. Wisdom was the curse of man, she said. In seeking wisdom we had lost our heritage. I didn’t believe that. We hadn’t sought wisdom diligently enough, that’s how we’d lost our heritage. We preferred cleverness to wisdom. Instead of seeking the truth, we had preferred to believe in easy certainties. Always so much easier to take the lazy, easy way and then pretend God had commanded it.

Life was combat, and victory was not to the lazy, the timid, the slugabed, the drugstore cowboy, the libertine, the mushmouth afraid to tell people exactly what was on his mind whether people liked it or not.

Be thou never without something to do; be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or doing something that is useful to the community.

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.

"Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular — I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.

It's not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.

It was not laziness if he was a rich man. Only the poor were lazy. Just as only the poor were ignorant. A rich man who didn't know anything was spoiled or independent.

There's an obvious attraction

To the path of least resistance in your life

Well there's an obvious aversion no amount of my insistence

Could make you try tonight 'Cause it's easy not to

So much easier not to

And what goes around never comes around to you

To you, to you, to you, to you, to you.