Quotes on Being Lazy

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

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

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.