George Stillman Hillard Quotes

I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

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.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

I know how deeply slothful I am.

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

I went through a lazy period.

I'm just generally lazy.

It's really easy to want to just sleep all day.

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

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

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

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

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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.

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.