Mark Twain Quotes

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.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

Negativity is basically laziness.

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.

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

When you've got a lot of slaves at your command, you tend to get a little bit fat. You tend to get a little bit lazy. You tend to get a little incompetent because there's not much that you do for yourself anymore.

Were we to slumber in indolence or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it not be to cast away the bounties of Providence and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority.

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

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.

You can't just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.