Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
~Jules Renard

I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.
~Bern Williams

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

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
~David Dunham

People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy.
~Bob Hope

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
~Jimmy Lyons

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
~Ronald Reagan

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.
~Bodie Thoene, Warsaw Requiem

Laziness will cause you pain.
~Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.
~Herbert Prochnov

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
~Charlie McCarthy

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
~Adam Clayton Powell, Keep the Faith, Baby!, 1967

The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer.
~Henry Clay

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
~Horace

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
~Paul Sweeney

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
~Søren Kierkegaard

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
~Saint Jerome

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
~Charles Dickens

People that are organized are just too lazy to get up and look for it.
~Author Unknown

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others.
~Oscar Wilde

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
~Milton Friedman