 | "I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble."
- Agatha Christie
, An Autobiography, 1977. |
| "Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."
- Edgar Bergen
, (Charlie McCarthy). |
| "Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything."
- Floyd Dell
. |
| "Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil."
- Hippocrates
, Decorum. |
| "Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."
- Jules Renard
. |
| "Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
- Jules Renard
. |
| "Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy."
- Mahatma Gandhi
. |
| "There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."
- Mary Wilson Little
. |
| "That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing."
- Pliny the Younger
, Letters. |
| "Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."
- Soren Kierkegaard
. |