Lazy Man Quotes

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in.

I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is a paradise in and around you right now, and to be there you don't even have to make a move. There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened. All potential experiences are within you already. You can open up to them at any time.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

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

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

A lazy man's wife is generally the power behind the drone.

There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.

Seek wisdom.  Wisdom waits to be gathered.  She cannot be bartered or sold.  She is a fight for the diligent.  And only the diligent will find her.  The lazy man - the stupid man - never even looks.  Though wisdom is available to many, she is found by few.  Seek wisdom.  Find her, and you will find success and contentment.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

All life is a struggle.... Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

I am a very lazy man, so, for me, the dream is to be at home on the chair with my family.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Contrary to popular opinion, my dad was not a lazy man. He was not lazy at all, for instance, when it came to Going Places In His Truck. He was also very industrious about Preparing To Go Camping. And if something really interested him, he would work on it all day.

The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.

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

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

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as when he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping. And like he would be kind of proud of whatever come up to make the moving or the setting still look hard. He set there on the wagon hunched up, blinking, listening to us tell about how quick the bridge went and how high the water was, and I be durn if he didn't act like he was proud of it, like he had made the river rise himself.

You may delay, but time will not.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

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

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.

Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor - or you may get hurt, which is major. Instead of years of meditation, you have this activity that forces you to relax and monitor your breathing and tread that line between living and dying. When you climb, you always are confronted with the edge. Hey, if it was just like climbing a ladder, we all would have quit a long time ago.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.