A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
– Benjamin Franklin
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
– Mary Wilson
President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?
– David Letterman
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard and be wise.
– Samuel Johnson
Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
– Thomas Jefferson
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
– Jules Renard
The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further.
– H. Ogilvie
Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.
– Kin Hubbard
The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer.
– Henry Clay
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
– Jules Renard
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
– Napoleon Hill
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
– Henry Ford
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
– Floyd Dell
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
– Milton Friedman
Idleness and lack of occupation tend nay are dragged towards evil.
– Hippocrates
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
– Karl Marx
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
– Benjamin Franklin
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
– Ambrose Bierce
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
– Charlie McCarthy