Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

                   —Thomas Jefferson

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.                

                           —Edgar Bergen

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.  

                          —Jules Reynard

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

                   —Mahatma Gandhi

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

                  —Soren Kierkegaard

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.             —Mary Wilson Little

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

                         —Bern Williams

People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy.

                                  —Bob Hope

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.                

                           —Jimmy Lyons

The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer.

                               —Henry Clay

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

          —Adam Clayton Powell

Whenever there is a hard job to be done, I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

                      —Walter Chrysler

Life does not agree with philosophy. There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

                    – Thomas Carlyle

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.              

                        —David Dunham

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

                        —Ronald Reagan

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

                       —Albert Einstein

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any university can teach.                   

                              —Oscar Wilde

How soon “not now” becomes “never.”            

                          —Martin Luther

Laziness moves so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

                 —Benjamin Franklin