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Samuel Johnson Quotes about Laziness

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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

Samuel Johnson
Sloth, Ease, Laziness
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.11

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Samuel Johnson
Men, Laziness, Idle
Samuel Johnson (1826). “The Rambler (1750-'52) a. the Idler (1758-'60)”

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

Samuel Johnson
Business, Sloth, Laziness
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.291

Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.

Samuel Johnson
Wise, Eye, Laziness
"The poems of Samuel Johnson".

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

Samuel Johnson
Rags, Laziness, Appearance
Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.90

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