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Laziness Quotes - Page 3

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

"Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.173

Talkers are no good doers.

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.32

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1550, Moody Publishers

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

'Letters to his Son' (1774) 20 July 1749