Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

You ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all? Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house, you realize you have a letter for a neighbor. You ever just look at the letter and go "Hm. Looks like they're never getting this. It'll take too much energy to go back outside. I'm gonna get that to them later on. Right now I gotta watch some 'Love Connection.' They got some new host on there."

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

The sluggard is a living insensible.

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

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.

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

Deep down inside, I am lazy.

I'm just generally lazy.

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.

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

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

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.

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.

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