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40,863. Mr Coolidge’s genius for inactivity is developed to a very high point. It is far from being an indolent activity. It is a grim, determined, alert inactivity which keeps Mr Coolidge occupied constantly. Nobody has ever worked harder at inactivity, with such force of character, with such unremitting attention to detail, with such conscientious devotion to the task. (Insult & Laziness) Walter Lippmann, Men of Destiny 1927
45,010. Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. (Journalism & Laziness) Kingsley Amis
66,246. Technically he isn’t disabled. Just lazy. (Care & Welfare & Old Age & Disability & Laziness) Derek – The Special, Channel 4 2014, Kev mum of Kev’s dad
77,032. There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. (Impatience & Laziness & Sins) Franz Kafka
5,269. If you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star ... you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy. (Work & Laziness) Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
68,389. Contentment is after all simply refined indolence. (Contentment & Laziness) Thomas C Haliburton
27,678. His was not the daily regime of a workaholic: Hitler was indolent. (Nazi & Laziness) The Nazis: A Warning from History: Chaos and Consent
72,351. Get the red sauce, you lazy sod. He’s bone bloody idol. I don’t know where he gets it from. (Family & Laziness) The Royal Family: Pregnancy s2e1, Jim
72,371. I don’t know [Denise] where she inherits this bloody lazy streak from. (Family & Laziness) The Royal Family: Nana Comes To Stay s2e4, Jim
75,957. Laziness turns out to be an underestimated force in human history. (History & Laziness) Andrew Marr’s History of the World I
79,016. I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. (Laziness & Idleness & Motion) William Shakespeare, II Henry IV I ii 219-221, Sir John to Lord Chief Justice
79,017. How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’. Dr Martin Luther King junior
79,018. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard
79,019. You can’t imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me; not a thought in my brain – you might send a ball rolling through it. Leo Tolstoy
79,020. 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. (Laziness & Job) Walter Crysler
79,021. Let us be lazy in everything. Except in loving and drinking. Except in being lazy. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
79,022. Laziness is the mother of efficiency. (Laziness & Efficiency) Marian Propp
79,023. Efficiency is intelligent laziness. (Laziness & Efficiency) David Dunham
79,024. The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed. Søren Kierkegaard
79,025. Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that. Usain Bolt
79,026. My ambition is handicapped by my laziness. (Laziness & Ambition) Charles Bukowski, Factotum 1975
79,027. Don’t yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. Horace, Satires
82,470. Human nature is above all things lazy. (Nature Human & Laziness) Harriet Beecher Stowe
63,184. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. (Ambition & Laziness) Milan Kundera
98,313. The doctor told him he was suffering from chronic inertia. (Glasgow & Laziness) The Gorbals Story 1950 starring Willie Mutrie & Peggy Anderson & Johnnie Martin & Jean Mutrie & Nora Reilly & Peter Reilly et al, director David MacKane, wife