Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
Kajol -
I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Sam Keen -
Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.
Orison Swett Marden -
I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
Harold Ramis -
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
James Cash Penney
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Minds ripen at very different ages.
Stevie Wonder -
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
Hans Kung -
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
Oscar Wilde -
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.
Shah Rukh Khan -
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
Sophocles
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Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured.
Carlo Collodi -
We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
Bullying happens at all ages and levels.
Ralph Macchio -
Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.
Albert Camus -
To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.
Eugene Ionesco -
It's a weird thing, beards now. I'll be in east London, and lads come up to me: 'Yo man, what beard oil do you use?' I'm like, 'I don't know what you're talking about.' It's just laziness.
Rory Charles Graham
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I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only a small portion to descend to his relatives. Even if he has children, I consider it a mistake to hand over to them considerable sums of money beyond what is necessary for their education. To do so merely encourages laziness and impedes the healthy development of the individual's capacity to make an independent position for himself.
Alfred Nobel -
I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
Sam Shepard -
My proposal that Fed governors should signal their commitment to public service by wearing Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts has so far gone unheeded.
Ben Bernanke -
[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.
Wallace Stegner -
Nothing ages like laziness.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton