Ezra Cornell Quotes

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

If you rest, you rust.

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

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

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

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

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

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

I went through a lazy period.

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

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.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

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.

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

I am lazy.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

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 know how deeply slothful I am.

I'm incredibly lazy!