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Laziness

  1. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. -Charlie McCarthy.
  2. Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. -Walter Chrysler.
  3. People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.  -Bob Hope.
  4. Anybody can exercise... But this kind of lethargy takes real discipline. -Garfield.
  5. Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired. -Jules Renard.
  6. Laziness is the mother of efficiency. -Marian Propp.
  7. It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? -Ronald Reagan.
  8. Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion. -Will Rogers.
  9. 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. -Agatha Christie.
  10. A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion. -Unknown.
  11. My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others. -Granni Nazzano.
  12. Efficiency is intelligent laziness. -David Dunham.
  13. It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. -George Borrow.
  14. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. -Oscar Wilde.
  15. Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan. -Anon.
  16. Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. -Floyd Dell.
  17. Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. -Jules Renard.
  18. Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -Albert Einstien.
  19. There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. -Mary Wilson Little.
  20. All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.  -Mark Kennedy.

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