Stephen Fry Quotes

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

I work like a dog when I have to, but when I'm not working, I get terribly lazy and could sit around all day.

Free time is the enemy of progress

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

I would rather be sick than idle.

I'm pretty lazy. My wife always says, "you're the laziest, most successful Olympian I've ever seen." How does that make sense? Honestly, if I have downtime, I'm really, really good at not doing anything.

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."