Allen Tate Quotes

I know how deeply slothful I am.

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

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

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

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

I'm just generally lazy.

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

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

The sluggard is a living insensible.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm quite lazy.

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

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.

I am lazy.

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.