Bell Hooks Quotes

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

I am the worlds laziest writer.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

I can be a lazy slob.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

I made nothing happen very slowly.

As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.