Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

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

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

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

I'm just generally lazy.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

I'm quite lazy.

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

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

I know how deeply slothful I am.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

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

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

He's made an art form out of doing nothing.

I went through a lazy period.

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

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

I want to be lazier. This is the luxurious dream I have: Doing nothing all day, just watching the clouds and DVDs.

The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues