John Heywood Quotes

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

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

The devil finds work for idle hands.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

Idleness ruins the constitution

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

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.

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

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.

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

Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

I know how deeply slothful I am.