Fran Lebowitz Quotes

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

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

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

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

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

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.

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

I'm just generally lazy.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

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.

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.

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

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

I'm quite lazy.

I know how deeply slothful I am.

I'm incredibly lazy!

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

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

Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.