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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Laziness

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
A loafer always has the correct time.
A young man idle, an old man needy.
Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.
By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. [Proverbs 18:9]
I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
If a man will not work, he shall not eat.
If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness -- if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor -- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
Sloth is the key to poverty.
Some men are so lazy they won't even feed themselves.
The idle always have a mind to do something.
The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow.
The only menace is inertia.
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it.
Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
We have so many labor-saving devices today that we go broke keeping them repaired. Everything is easier, but requires greater maintenance.
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

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