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Laziness Quotes - Page 7

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.

Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.190

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

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.224, Discovery House

Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.

"Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son, on Men and Manners: Or, A New System of Education". Book by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, 1815.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.60

My comedy is romanticized laziness.

"Q&A With Jim Gaffigan: ‘Hot Pocket’ Comedian Reaches Out to Our Wounded Soldiers (VIDEO)". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.

"Interview: Jim Gaffigan Talks Family, Food And Dad Is Fat". Interview with Samantha Abernethy, chicagoist.com. May 10, 2013.

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions