Masanobu Fukuoka Quotes

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

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'm incredibly lazy!

I'm a lazy, lazy girl.

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

I'm a lazy sod.

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

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

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

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.

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

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

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but [Calvin] Coolidge only snores.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active.

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

I am a woman of simple tastes.

I don't really hype myself up with fancy things.

I am very lazy.

We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.