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An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
-English Proverb
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A young man idle, an old man needy.
-English Proverb
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Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
-Proverb
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.
-Proverb
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The hardest work of all is to do nothing.
-Proverb
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He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers.
-Proverb
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By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
-Proverb
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Sloth is the key to poverty.
-Proverb
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
-Anne Baxter
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The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Matthew 9:37
-Bible
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The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. Proverbs 20:4
-Bible
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Some men are so lazy they won't even feed themselves.
-Bible
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If a man will not work, he shall not eat.
-Bible
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He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. Proverbs 18:9
-Bible
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Expect poison from standing water.
-William Blake
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Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure has become entertainment.
-Allan Bloom
The Closing of the American Mind, 1987
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I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
-Matthew Broderick
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Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
-Robert Burton
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
-Mortimer Caplan
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
-Lord Chesterfield
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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
An Autobiography, 1977
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Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
-Jeremy Collier
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A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
-Cyril Connolly
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Books about Laziness
