Best Laziness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 13

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“I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed."”

Said Funny Remember Bed Directors Skills Laziness Fangs Sloth Indolence

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Everybody knows how much time Fang spends in bed. A local store that gives a 30 days' trial on mattresses gives Fang only 15 days.”

Knows Giving Funny Know How Bed Stores Trials Locals Laziness Fangs Sloth Indolence Mattresses

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Your husband is lazy if when he leaves the house, he finds out which way the wind is blowing and goes that direction.”

Ifs Way Funny House Wind Husband Lazy Laziness Sloth Your Husband Indolence

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Your husband is lazy if the directions on his medicine say, "A teaspoon before going to bed," and in one day he uses seven bottles.”

Ifs Use Funny One Day Bed Husband Medicine Seven Lazy Bottles Laziness Sloth Your Husband Indolence Teaspoons

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Your husband is lazy if coffee doesn't keep him awake - even when it's hot and being spilled on him.”

Ifs Funny Husband Hot Coffee Awake Lazy Laziness Sloth Your Husband Indolence

Author:Phyllis Diller

“When he proposed he said, "We'll make such beautiful music together," but in this duet, his part seems to be all rests.”

Said Seems Funny Together Beautiful Laziness Sloth Indolence Duets Beautiful Music

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Everybody knows how lazy he is. One day the neighbors saw Fang mow the lawn and I got three Get Well cards.”

Knows Wells Funny Three Know How Saws One Day Neighbor Cards Lazy Laziness Lawns Fangs Sloth Indolence Get Well

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Once Fang took pep pills and they worked - the only time he ever ran to bed.”

Funny Bed Ran Laziness Only Time Pills Fangs Sloth Indolence Pep

Author:Phyllis Diller

“It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'”

Knows Should Looks Important Funny Nations Pay Rich Defeat Temptation Lazy Going Away Cash Laziness Sloth Indolence Puff

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.”

Literature Wicked Laziness Sloth Sirens Siren Song

Author:Horace

“Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.”

Loses Dare Desperate Laziness Prodigals

Author:Joseph Hall

“People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.”

People Needs Secret Lazy Laziness Arrogant Careless Covenant Doubtful

Book:The Better Covenant

Source: The Better Covenant

“Many say they can't get God's guidance, when they really mean they wish He would show them an easier way.”

Way Mean Shows Wish Easier Guidance Laziness Really Mean

Author:Winkie Pratney

“We want gain without pain; we want the resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by way of the Cross. But in God's economy, the way up is down.”

Way Want Pain Economy Gains Crosses Graves Resurrection Laziness Crowns Without Pain

Book:Brokenness: The Heart God Revives

Source: Brokenness: The Heart God Revives

“The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.”

Soul Taken Duty Laziness Neglected

Book:The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War

Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War

“Frequently what we say is rest is merely laziness. Our body requires respite and so does our mind and spirit. But a person should never rest because of a laziness which arises from the evil nature in his emotion. How often laziness and emotional distaste for work join to employ physical fatigue as a cover-up.”

Should Mind Persons Doe Body Spirit Evil Emotion Emotional Arise Laziness Fatigue Cover Ups Distaste Respite

Author:Watchman Nee

“Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.”

Want May Wish Grace Battle Glory Labor Rewards Laziness Harvest Wages Sowing

Book:Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

Source: Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

“There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.”