28 quotes found
“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.”
“The lazy are always wanting to do something.”
“Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.”
“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.”
“Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.”
“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from inability to find the right words, he had developed ...”
“The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.”
“It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquillity.”