Top 61 Quotes About Lazy Men: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Lazy Men

#1. I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.

Jimmy Cannon

#2. Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. Communism was born from a beautiful dream, the likes of which there will never be again on the face of this earth: that there would no longer be lazy men who eat their fill while others work hard and starve.

Eka Kurniawan

#6. Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Mary Boykin Chesnut

#7. Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys - to woo women - and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

Robin Williams

#8. Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one.

Mason Cooley

#9. The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

James Ellis

#10. Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.

George Sandys

#11. We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

James Earl Jones

#12. There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.

Yohji Yamamoto

#13. Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Solomon

#14. Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.

Erwin Rommel

#15. A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.

Frederick The Great

#16. Ninety percent of the people I've worked with who are disruptive or lazy or unskilled or addicts or likely to throw a tantrum are men. Ninety percent of the ones who get called "difficult" are women.

Anna Kendrick

#17. The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man ...

Walter J. Phillips

#18. Rage or fear ... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

David Chang

#19. The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare.

J. Oswald Sanders

#20. The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#21. Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

#22. Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that.

Nevil Shute

#23. By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

Henry Adams

#24. Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character.

Theodore Roosevelt

#25. An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings ... than a lazy lounger ... too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.

Thomas Jefferson

#26. The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

John Lubbock

#27. After all, I reflected, I was like my neighbours; and then I smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my active goodwill with the lazy cruelty of their neglect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#28. Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

Leah Remini

#29. To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

James Ellis

#30. Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.

Mignon McLaughlin

#31. I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.

Ryan Adams

#32. All life is a struggle ... Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.

Samuel Smiles

#33. I had heard of Virginia before only in passing, a "crazy ex" with whom things had not ended well. I was accustomed to this lazy shorthand for men who dislike the emotions of women.

Alana Massey

#34. Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.

Theophrastus

#35. The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.

C.S. Lewis

#36. Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work.

David Ogilvy

#37. Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#38. What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.

Caitlin Moran

#39. Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

Martin Luther

#40. It matters little which party has gotten lazy about delivering what their partner craves. It doesn't take too many days or weeks for an unsatisfied partner to start to feel love-starved and sadly unfulfilled. If you want great sex in the bedroom, show love to each other outside the bedroom.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#41. What will you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?'
No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every men would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged.

Emma Goldman

#42. Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#43. Some of today's men and women give the impression that they have grown lazy, weary and out of love. Physically, they might entice you with their youthful looks, However, on the inside, they possess a dying spirit; a spirit which has retired from active love life engagements'.

Francis Otieno

#44. Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.

Jimmy Lyons

#45. The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Aristotle.

#46. The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

Evan Esar

#47. Contrary to popular opinion, my dad was not a lazy man. He was not lazy at all, for instance, when it came to Going Places In His Truck. He was also very industrious about Preparing To Go Camping. And if something really interested him, he would work on it all day.

Haven Kimmel

#48. The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.

Arthur W. Pink

#49. Dorian offered a lazy grin in return, believe it or not, this ship has an unnatural number of attractive men and women on board. You'll fit right in, and fit in with the cranky immortals, I suppose.

Sarah J. Maas

#50. Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#51. Some men enjoy the constant strife Of days with work and worry rife, But that is not my dream of life: I think such men are crazy. For me, a life with worries few, A job of nothing much to do, Just pelf enough to see me through: I fear that I am lazy.

James Weldon Johnson

#52. Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

Saint Augustine

#53. I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar.

Rainbow Rowell

#54. Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

Jean De La Bruyere