Joseph Epstein Quotes

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 lazy are always wanting to do something.

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 sluggard is a living insensible.

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.

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

I am lazy.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon, about being a couch potato, stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never aspired for.

I'm incredibly lazy!

I'm a lazy, lazy girl.

I'm a lazy sod.

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

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

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

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

OK, I'm as lazy as the next guy. Full disclosure. And I often feel guilty about it.