Alice Walker Quotes

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

I think an excess of anything is bad, be it mobile phones, social media, private tuitions or watching television.

What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.

My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about this, I tend to put it all down as habit or it's just acting.

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.

I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road.

Sitting around on the couch eating Pringles all day is not going to help anyone.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

I get very lazy when I come to Delhi. My visits here are all about sitting and eating and it is very dangerous.

I like to stay at home and sit on my ass.

I want to sit on my couch and drink and not change my pants for days at a time.

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.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

When I'm not working, I am the laziest person. I can literally lie on a couch and watch television for 15 hours.

A great day for me is not getting out of bed. I like to see how many snacks I can eat..and how many really bad TV shows I can watch

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.

Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many.

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity.

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat.

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.