“I was made to work; if you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.” -Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
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“Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))
“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” [translation to English]
“Luiheid mag aantrekkelijk schijnen, werken geeft bevrediging.” [original German]
-Anne Frank (Annelies Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (1929 - 1945)): “The Diary of a Young Girl” (1952), ‘6 July 1944’
“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know.” -Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
“A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.” -Dorothy L. Sayers (Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893 - 1957))
“My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.” -Charles Bukowski: “Factotum” (1975)
“The dog that trots about finds a bone.” -Author Unknown
Overheard: My dog is so lazy that he hires other dogs to chase cats for him.
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Dwight: Why did the lazy woman have a great big dog?
Edwin: So she would not have to bend down far to pet it.
“The lazy are always wanting to do something.” -Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 - 1747): “Reflections and Maxims” (1746)
“When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle, or children playing in the park?” -Ralph Marston (Ralph Seymour Marston, Junior (born 1955)) at https://GreatDay.com/
“He is idle that might be better employed.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)
“Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.” -Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1953): as quoted in “The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life” (1950)
“Doing nothing is very hard to do - you never know when you’re finished.” -Leslie Nielsen
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
“Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other’s work.” -Ann Rule
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Every Day Will Be Sunday
A young fellow who did not much enjoy working, did do some work, figuring out that eventually every day will be Sunday. Every year has 365 days. If you sleep eight hours a day, it equals 122 days. This leaves 243 days. If you rest eight hours a day it equals another 122 days. This leaves 121 days. There are 52 Sundays, thus leaving 69 days. If you have a half-day on Saturday, this equals 26 days, and leaves 43 days. If you have 1 and 1/2 hours for lunch every workday, this equals 28 days, leaving 15 days. Two weeks’ vacation equals 14 days. This leaves only one day. And on Labor Day, nobody works.
By Author Unknown
“Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.” -Jimmy Lyons
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826): letter (5 May 1787) to Martha Jefferson
“Resting is rusting.” -Helen Hayes
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“A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
“Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.” -John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
“Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has, the more he is able to accomplish; for he learns to economize his time.” -Matthew Hale (1609 - 1676): as quoted in Tryon Edwards “A Dictionary of Thoughts” (1908), page 242
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“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.” -Don Herold (1889 - 1966): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.” -Thomas Sowell (born 1930)
Dede: What kind of shoes do lazy people wear?
Bebe: Loafers.
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“There is no excellence without labor.” -Author Unknown
“Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man’s time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever.” -Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
“The forty hour week has no charm for me. I’m looking for the forty hour day!” -Nicholas Murray Butler (1862 - 1947)
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“Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))
“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” [translation to English]
“Luiheid mag aantrekkelijk schijnen, werken geeft bevrediging.” [original German]
-Anne Frank (Annelies Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (1929 - 1945)): “The Diary of a Young Girl” (1952), ‘6 July 1944’
“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know.” -Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
“A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.” -Dorothy L. Sayers (Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893 - 1957))
“My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.” -Charles Bukowski: “Factotum” (1975)
“The dog that trots about finds a bone.” -Author Unknown
Overheard: My dog is so lazy that he hires other dogs to chase cats for him.
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Dwight: Why did the lazy woman have a great big dog?
Edwin: So she would not have to bend down far to pet it.
“The lazy are always wanting to do something.” -Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 - 1747): “Reflections and Maxims” (1746)
“When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle, or children playing in the park?” -Ralph Marston (Ralph Seymour Marston, Junior (born 1955)) at https://GreatDay.com/
“He is idle that might be better employed.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)
“Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.” -Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1953): as quoted in “The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life” (1950)
“Doing nothing is very hard to do - you never know when you’re finished.” -Leslie Nielsen
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
“Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other’s work.” -Ann Rule
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Every Day Will Be Sunday
A young fellow who did not much enjoy working, did do some work, figuring out that eventually every day will be Sunday. Every year has 365 days. If you sleep eight hours a day, it equals 122 days. This leaves 243 days. If you rest eight hours a day it equals another 122 days. This leaves 121 days. There are 52 Sundays, thus leaving 69 days. If you have a half-day on Saturday, this equals 26 days, and leaves 43 days. If you have 1 and 1/2 hours for lunch every workday, this equals 28 days, leaving 15 days. Two weeks’ vacation equals 14 days. This leaves only one day. And on Labor Day, nobody works.
By Author Unknown
“Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.” -Jimmy Lyons
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826): letter (5 May 1787) to Martha Jefferson
“Resting is rusting.” -Helen Hayes
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“A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
“Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.” -John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
“Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has, the more he is able to accomplish; for he learns to economize his time.” -Matthew Hale (1609 - 1676): as quoted in Tryon Edwards “A Dictionary of Thoughts” (1908), page 242
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“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.” -Don Herold (1889 - 1966): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.” -Thomas Sowell (born 1930)
Dede: What kind of shoes do lazy people wear?
Bebe: Loafers.
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“There is no excellence without labor.” -Author Unknown
“Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man’s time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever.” -Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
“The forty hour week has no charm for me. I’m looking for the forty hour day!” -Nicholas Murray Butler (1862 - 1947)
Up, you sluggard, and get to work . . . or at least do some meaningful activity!
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“Don’t just sit there like a bump on a log!” -Author Unknown
“If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887): “Lectures to Young Men: On Various Important Subjects” (1852)
“We will be friends forever because I am too lazy to find new ones.” -Author Unknown
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“Shun idleness. It is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778))
“Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.” -attributed to Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): letter (16 November 1857) to Harrison Gray Otis Blake
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“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.” -Jules Renard (Pierre-Jules Renard (1864 - 1910))
“We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.” [translation to English]
“Difficultas patrocinia præteximus segnitiæ.” [original Latin]
-Quintilian: “De Institutione Oratoria,” I. 12
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Overheard: I am allergic to lazy people.
“Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn’t give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn’t surround myself with people who are lazy.” -Michael Chandler
In Works of Labour or of Skill
I would be busy too:
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle Hands to do.
-Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748): “Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children” (1715), Song 20: ‘Against Idleness and Mischief’
“The hardest work in life is resisting laziness.” -Author Unknown
“The idler does not waste time; he merely wastes himself.” -Author Unknown
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If little labor, little are our gains;
Man’s fortunes are according to his pains.
-Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
“Idleness is the root of mischief.” -Author Unknown
“Tomorrow is always the sluggard’s working day; today is his holiday.” -Richard Baxter
“Idleness is the holiday of fools.” -Author Unknown: proverb
“The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.” -George S. Hilliard
“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” -Sam Ewing (1920 - 2001)
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” -Marthe Troly-Curtin: “Phrynette Married” (1912), page 256
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How can we help sluggards become better people? We can urge them on to becoming workers by letting them experience the consequences of their idleness. According to scripture, “For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies. Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘2nd Thessalonians,’ chapter 3, verses 10 through 12
“Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.” -Luc de Clapiers (1715 - 1747)
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“There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): “Past and Present” (1843), book 3, chapter 11
“If a loafer is not a nuisance to you, it is a sign that you are somewhat of a loafer yourself.” -Edgar W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe, also known as E. W. Howe (1853 - 1937))
“It is better to wear out than to rust out.” -Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718): as quoted in G. Horne: “The Duty of Contending for the Faith” (1786), page 21
“Human beings find less rest in idleness than in a change of occupation. If you scoff at the idea, just try it. Instead of collapsing in an easy chair, try tackling your hobby. Or write that neglected letter, or help Johnny to build that radio receiver set. Activity - especially creative activity - is far better recreation than loafing.” -Gardner Hunting (Henry Gardner Hunting (1872 - 1958)): as quoted in “Weekly Unity” magazine
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“The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863): “The Luck of Barry Lyndon” (1844)
“You get out of anything in proportion to what you put into it.” -Author Unknown
’Tis the voice of the sluggard, I heard him complain:
“You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again”;
As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed,
Turns his sides, and his shoulders and his heavy head.
-Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748): “The Sluggard” as quoted in “Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations” (1922), pages 384 and 385
“If you sleep till Noon, you have no right to complain that the Days are short.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 2788
“Lazy people are good for just one thing, and that is, making mediocre people look like they have accomplished something in life.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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Rules For Lazy People
1. If you cannot reach it easily, you do not need it.
2. Get it done - but just not today.
3. It is always somebody else’s job.
By Author Unknown
“Idleness is the great corrupter of youth, and the bane and dishonor of middle age. He who, in the prime of life, finds time to hang heavy on his hands, may with much reason suspect that he has not consulted the duties which the consideration of his age imposed upon him; assuredly he has not consulted his happiness.” -Hugh Blair (1718 - 1800): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 345
“If you’re coasting, you’re going downhill.” -L. R. Pierson
“There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012)): “See You at the Top” (2000)
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What might someone be other than lazy? Tired, fearful, sad, overwhelmed, in physical pain, in emotional pain, traumatized, shy . . . Can you think of anything else?
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“Don’t just sit there like a bump on a log!” -Author Unknown
“If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887): “Lectures to Young Men: On Various Important Subjects” (1852)
“We will be friends forever because I am too lazy to find new ones.” -Author Unknown
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“Shun idleness. It is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778))
“Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.” -attributed to Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): letter (16 November 1857) to Harrison Gray Otis Blake
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“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.” -Jules Renard (Pierre-Jules Renard (1864 - 1910))
“We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.” [translation to English]
“Difficultas patrocinia præteximus segnitiæ.” [original Latin]
-Quintilian: “De Institutione Oratoria,” I. 12
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Overheard: I am allergic to lazy people.
“Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn’t give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn’t surround myself with people who are lazy.” -Michael Chandler
In Works of Labour or of Skill
I would be busy too:
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle Hands to do.
-Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748): “Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children” (1715), Song 20: ‘Against Idleness and Mischief’
“The hardest work in life is resisting laziness.” -Author Unknown
“The idler does not waste time; he merely wastes himself.” -Author Unknown
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If little labor, little are our gains;
Man’s fortunes are according to his pains.
-Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
“Idleness is the root of mischief.” -Author Unknown
“Tomorrow is always the sluggard’s working day; today is his holiday.” -Richard Baxter
“Idleness is the holiday of fools.” -Author Unknown: proverb
“The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.” -George S. Hilliard
“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” -Sam Ewing (1920 - 2001)
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” -Marthe Troly-Curtin: “Phrynette Married” (1912), page 256
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How can we help sluggards become better people? We can urge them on to becoming workers by letting them experience the consequences of their idleness. According to scripture, “For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies. Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘2nd Thessalonians,’ chapter 3, verses 10 through 12
“Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.” -Luc de Clapiers (1715 - 1747)
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“There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): “Past and Present” (1843), book 3, chapter 11
“If a loafer is not a nuisance to you, it is a sign that you are somewhat of a loafer yourself.” -Edgar W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe, also known as E. W. Howe (1853 - 1937))
“It is better to wear out than to rust out.” -Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718): as quoted in G. Horne: “The Duty of Contending for the Faith” (1786), page 21
“Human beings find less rest in idleness than in a change of occupation. If you scoff at the idea, just try it. Instead of collapsing in an easy chair, try tackling your hobby. Or write that neglected letter, or help Johnny to build that radio receiver set. Activity - especially creative activity - is far better recreation than loafing.” -Gardner Hunting (Henry Gardner Hunting (1872 - 1958)): as quoted in “Weekly Unity” magazine
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“The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863): “The Luck of Barry Lyndon” (1844)
“You get out of anything in proportion to what you put into it.” -Author Unknown
’Tis the voice of the sluggard, I heard him complain:
“You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again”;
As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed,
Turns his sides, and his shoulders and his heavy head.
-Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748): “The Sluggard” as quoted in “Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations” (1922), pages 384 and 385
“If you sleep till Noon, you have no right to complain that the Days are short.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 2788
“Lazy people are good for just one thing, and that is, making mediocre people look like they have accomplished something in life.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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Rules For Lazy People
1. If you cannot reach it easily, you do not need it.
2. Get it done - but just not today.
3. It is always somebody else’s job.
By Author Unknown
“Idleness is the great corrupter of youth, and the bane and dishonor of middle age. He who, in the prime of life, finds time to hang heavy on his hands, may with much reason suspect that he has not consulted the duties which the consideration of his age imposed upon him; assuredly he has not consulted his happiness.” -Hugh Blair (1718 - 1800): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 345
“If you’re coasting, you’re going downhill.” -L. R. Pierson
“There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012)): “See You at the Top” (2000)
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What might someone be other than lazy? Tired, fearful, sad, overwhelmed, in physical pain, in emotional pain, traumatized, shy . . . Can you think of anything else?
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time.” -John Lubbock (1834 - 1913): “The Use of Life” (1894), chapter IV: ‘Recreation’
“The only problem with having nothing to do is you can’t stop and rest.” -Franklin P. Jones (Franklin Pierce Jones (1908 - 1980))
“Sleepiness and laziness in a man are the beginning of his misfortune.” -Samuel Rapaport: “Tales and Maxims from the Midrash” (1907), ‘Genesis Rabbah 17,’ page 69
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Overheard: I am going to do nothing all day today, starting just as soon as I am finished doing the nothing I did all day yesterday . . .
“Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com/
“It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don’t care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.” -Robert South (1634 - 1716)
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“Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
“The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort to make work as near pleasure as it can be.” -Arthur James Balfour (1848 - 1930)
“Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.” -Miguel de Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616))
“The best person to get something done is a busy person.” -Mark Burnett
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“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.” -Charles Baudelaire (Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867))
“Idle Fellows are the Devil’s Playfellows.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia” (1732), number 3054
“Doing nothing results in having nothing.” -Daniel Burke
“The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much farther.” -Heneage Ogilvie (William Heneage Ogilvie (1887 -1971))
“Merit and fame never crown the lazy.” -Author Unknown
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“A sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Proverbs,’ chapter 20, verse 4
“The only thing worse than having too much to do is having not enough.” -Author Unknown
“If idleness does not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy.” -Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845): attributed in “The Review of Education” (May 1902)
“He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.” -Menander of Athens (342 B.C.E. - 291 B.C.E.)
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“Laziness is a luxury that few people can afford.” -Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
“Plough deep, while Sluggards sleep; And you shall have Corn, to sell and to keep.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
“If I won the award for laziness, I would send somebody to pick it up for me.” -Author Unknown
“A man is a worker. If he is not that, he is nothing.” -Joseph Conrad (born Teodor Józef Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski (1857 - 1924)): “Notes on Life and Letters” (1921), part II, ‘Well Done’
“Be sure to keep busy, so the devil may always find you occupied.” -Vegetius (Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus)
“Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.” -Hosea Ballou (1771 - 1811): “Manuscripts,” ‘Sermons’ as quoted in “Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations” (1922), pages 384 and 385
Lazy people work harder . . . at being lazy, that is!
“Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.” -Elias Lyman Magoon: as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895)
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“Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790)): “Poor Richard’s Almanack” (1756)
“If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915)): as quoted in Elbert Hubbard II, compiler: “The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard: Mottoes, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings, and Preachments” (1927)
“Laziness is the seed of all evil.” -Author Unknown: Welsh saying
There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor is a punishment
Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
-Aubrey de Vere: “A Song of Faith, Devout Exercises, and Sonnets”
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“I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
“Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.” -Hesiod (about 800 B.C.E. - about 720 B.C.E.)
“A man who does nothing never has time to do anything.” -C. H. Spurgeon (Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892))
“Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.” -C. F. W. Walther (Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther (1811 - 1887)): letter (14 January 1873)
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“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830): “Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners” (1821 - 1822), ‘On the Pleasure of Painting’
“He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live entirely to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.” -John Foster: as quoted in C. N. Douglas (Charles Noel Douglas (1863 - 1920)), compiler: “Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical” (1917)
Smiling uses fewer muscles and takes less effort than frowning, making smiling a great way for lazy people to contribute something useful to the world . . . the results of industriousness follows . . . on MFOL!
“The only problem with having nothing to do is you can’t stop and rest.” -Franklin P. Jones (Franklin Pierce Jones (1908 - 1980))
“Sleepiness and laziness in a man are the beginning of his misfortune.” -Samuel Rapaport: “Tales and Maxims from the Midrash” (1907), ‘Genesis Rabbah 17,’ page 69
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Overheard: I am going to do nothing all day today, starting just as soon as I am finished doing the nothing I did all day yesterday . . .
“Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com/
“It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don’t care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.” -Robert South (1634 - 1716)
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“Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
“The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort to make work as near pleasure as it can be.” -Arthur James Balfour (1848 - 1930)
“Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.” -Miguel de Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616))
“The best person to get something done is a busy person.” -Mark Burnett
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“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.” -Charles Baudelaire (Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867))
“Idle Fellows are the Devil’s Playfellows.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia” (1732), number 3054
“Doing nothing results in having nothing.” -Daniel Burke
“The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much farther.” -Heneage Ogilvie (William Heneage Ogilvie (1887 -1971))
“Merit and fame never crown the lazy.” -Author Unknown
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“A sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Proverbs,’ chapter 20, verse 4
“The only thing worse than having too much to do is having not enough.” -Author Unknown
“If idleness does not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy.” -Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845): attributed in “The Review of Education” (May 1902)
“He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.” -Menander of Athens (342 B.C.E. - 291 B.C.E.)
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“Laziness is a luxury that few people can afford.” -Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
“Plough deep, while Sluggards sleep; And you shall have Corn, to sell and to keep.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
“If I won the award for laziness, I would send somebody to pick it up for me.” -Author Unknown
“A man is a worker. If he is not that, he is nothing.” -Joseph Conrad (born Teodor Józef Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski (1857 - 1924)): “Notes on Life and Letters” (1921), part II, ‘Well Done’
“Be sure to keep busy, so the devil may always find you occupied.” -Vegetius (Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus)
“Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.” -Hosea Ballou (1771 - 1811): “Manuscripts,” ‘Sermons’ as quoted in “Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations” (1922), pages 384 and 385
Lazy people work harder . . . at being lazy, that is!
“Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.” -Elias Lyman Magoon: as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895)
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“Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790)): “Poor Richard’s Almanack” (1756)
“If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915)): as quoted in Elbert Hubbard II, compiler: “The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard: Mottoes, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings, and Preachments” (1927)
“Laziness is the seed of all evil.” -Author Unknown: Welsh saying
There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor is a punishment
Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
-Aubrey de Vere: “A Song of Faith, Devout Exercises, and Sonnets”
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“I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
“Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.” -Hesiod (about 800 B.C.E. - about 720 B.C.E.)
“A man who does nothing never has time to do anything.” -C. H. Spurgeon (Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892))
“Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.” -C. F. W. Walther (Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther (1811 - 1887)): letter (14 January 1873)
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“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830): “Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners” (1821 - 1822), ‘On the Pleasure of Painting’
“He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live entirely to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.” -John Foster: as quoted in C. N. Douglas (Charles Noel Douglas (1863 - 1920)), compiler: “Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical” (1917)
Smiling uses fewer muscles and takes less effort than frowning, making smiling a great way for lazy people to contribute something useful to the world . . . the results of industriousness follows . . . on MFOL!
