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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Laziness

Benjamin Franklin

PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

3.3 · 54 votes · 168 reads

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A young man idle, an old man needy.

English proverb

3.4 · 42 votes · 161 reads

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By doing nothing we learn to do ill.

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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Laziness

WriterFrench1864 · 19th century

4.2 · 44 votes

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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Laziness

Miguel de Cervantes

PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

4.3 · 56 votes

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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

3.1 · 58 votes · 159 reads

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

Laziness

WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

4.0 · 34 votes

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Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Laziness

Marquis de Vauvenargues

WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

3.8 · 55 votes

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Sloth is the key to poverty.

Laziness

4.5 · 51 votes · 187 reads

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The idle always have a mind to do something.

Laziness

Marquis de Vauvenargues

WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

4.0 · 48 votes

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The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
Napoleon Hill
WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century
3.1 · 42 votes · 194 reads
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Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
German proverb
German
3.6 · 11 votes · 112 reads
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Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
Samuel Johnson
AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century
3.9 · 5 votes · 104 reads
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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
Horace
PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC
4.1 · 22 votes · 120 reads
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