George Orwell Quotes

In the Army, I was very good at avoiding my job!

The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do.

I would enjoy doing what cats do: singing, sleeping, and licking my nuts.

I'm always looking for the comfiest place to lie down, like a cat.

I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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

All cats love a cushioned couch.

I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

The slothful is the servant of the counters.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

cats choose us; we don't own them

A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share.

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.