Laziness Quotes, Sayings about being lazy

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.
– Spanish proverb

I like the word “indolence.” It makes my laziness seem classy.
– Bern Williams

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

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
– Adam Clayton

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

For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
– Isaac Watts

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

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
– Mary Wilson

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
– Soren Kierkegaard

He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.
– Thomas Fuller

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

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
– Anne Frank

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
– Benjamin Franklin

Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
– German Proverb

If a man will not work, he shall not eat.
– Bible

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
– Grenville Kleiser

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
– Benjamin Franklin

Sloth is the key to poverty.
– Proverb

The lazy are always wanting to do something.
– Vauvenargues