Robert Burton Quotes

There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

I want to be lazier. This is the luxurious dream I have: Doing nothing all day, just watching the clouds and DVDs.

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

I'm a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

I am capable of being idle.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

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

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.

We are fixed with every convenience, long desks, easy revolving chairs, footstools, plenty of servants and no specific work to be done.

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

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active.

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

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

If I could stay in a dressing gown all day I would.

I'm definitely the lazy one in the family.

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.

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

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.