Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

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

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

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

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

I'm just generally lazy.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

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

The sluggard is a living insensible.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

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

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.

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.

Idleness ruins the constitution

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.

Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.

Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.

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