| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Laziness |
| | | Humanity is constitutionally lazy. J. G. Holland. | 1 |
| Laziness breeds humors of the blood. Galen. | 2 |
| Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. Benjamin Franklin. | 3 |
| An idler is a watch that wants both hands. Cowper. | 4 |
| The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it. James Ellis. | 5 |
| A lazy hand is no argument of a contented heart. Thomas Fuller. | 6 |
| Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it. Dr. Johnson. | 7 |
| Laziness is a good deal like money, the more a man has of it, the more he seems to want. H. W. Shaw. | 8 | | |
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