Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

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.

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

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

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

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

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

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

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

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

I'm incredibly lazy!

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

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

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

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

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

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.

Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.

The sluggard is a living insensible.