Gilbert Highet Quotes

Human nature is above all things lazy.

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

I'm just generally lazy.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

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.

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

Habit is a great deadener.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

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

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 went through a lazy period.

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

You ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all? Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house, you realize you have a letter for a neighbor. You ever just look at the letter and go "Hm. Looks like they're never getting this. It'll take too much energy to go back outside. I'm gonna get that to them later on. Right now I gotta watch some 'Love Connection.' They got some new host on there."

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.

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.

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

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.