I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
- Agatha Christie
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
- Benjamin Franklin
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
- Bob Hope
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
- David Dunham
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
- George Borrow
My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.
- Granni Nazzano
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
- Grenville Kleiser
The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further.
- H Ogilvie
For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
- Isaac Watts
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
- Jules Renard
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
- Jules Renard
The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master
- Kahlil Gibran
Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.
- Kin Hubbard
Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Lord Chesterfield
The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.
- R t Wombat
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
- William Hazlitt
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
- Oscar Wilde
A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.
- Unknown
