Michael Flanders Quotes

I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

Comfort and indolence are cronies.

I know how deeply slothful I am.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

To be at ease is better than to be at business.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Prosperity engenders sloth.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

Idling has always been my strong point.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.