INDOLENCE

Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper and be satisfied.

Proverbs 13:4

Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and be wise! Even though they have no prince, governor, or ruler to make them work, they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter. But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep?

Proverbs 6:6–9

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

He’s the kind of student with a Cadillac mind but a Pinto performance.

Poverty is usually the side-partner of laziness.

The quickest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is to rest on them.

The Sunday school teacher asked her class, “What parable do you like best?”

Little Johnny replied, “The one about the multitude that loafs and fishes.”

A lazy boy and a warm bed are difficult to part.

Danish Proverb

To do nothing is in every man’s power.

Samuel Johnson

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains.

M. Hale

“Son,” said the boss to the lazy office boy, “I don’t know how we’re going to get along without you, but starting Monday we’re going to try.”

Indolence is a bodily affliction that mostly the young indulge in and only the old can afford.

Indolence is the mental alertness to avoid hard work.

The habit of resting before fatigue sets in is laziness.

Jules Renard

Idleness is the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.

Lord Chesterfield

He is idle who might be better employed.

Thomas Fuller

The ruin of most men is idleness.

George Hilliard

Idleness is stagnant satisfaction.

Samuel Smiles

Disciplined inaction is indolence.