Laziness

I peered over D's shoulder as he was reading Forbes magazine and the last page caught my eye. It contained a page of quotes all relating to "laziness":

• "Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." -- Edgar Bergen
• "Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything". -- Floyd Dell
• "No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic." -- John Kenneth Galbraith"
• "Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." -- Leonardo Da Vinci
• "I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good." -- Samuel Johnson
• "Laziness is a good deal like money; the more a man has of it the more he seems to want." -- Josh Billings
• "Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement." -- Henry Miller
• "When the idle poor become the idle rich You'll never know just who is who or who is which." -- E.Y. (Yip) Harburg
• "A lazy man is never lucky." -- Persian Proverb
• "What use is a good head if the legs won't carry it?" -- Yiddish Proverb
• "A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends." -- Cyril Connolly
• "I suspect guys who say, 'I just sent out for a sandwich for lunch' as lazy men trying to impress me." -- Jimmy Cannon
• "The lazy are always wanting to do something." -- Vauvenargues