Ford Frick Quotes

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

Our own laziness taxes us more than kings...

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

I work like a dog when I have to, but when I'm not working, I get terribly lazy and could sit around all day.

Free time is the enemy of progress

An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

I would rather be sick than idle.

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

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.

I just have work to do; I just do it.

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.