Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

I am the worlds laziest writer.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon, about being a couch potato, stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never aspired for.

I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

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

I went through a lazy period.

I am terribly lazy. So, if I don't have to get out of the house, I will sleep away the entire day.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

I'm just generally lazy.

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.

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.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

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.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.