Walter Lippmann Quotes

Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.

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.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

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.

I'm kind of lethargic in real life.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.

I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

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.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!

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

Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

A lot of people are tired around here, but I'm not sure they're ready to lie down, stretch out and fall asleep.

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

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

I know how deeply slothful I am.

I'm incredibly lazy!

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

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

If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse.

I'm just generally lazy.