Long and lazy. [ Proverb ]
Blame is the lazy man's wages. [ Danish Proverb ]
Hungry men think the cook lazy. [ Proverb ]
Celerity is the lazy man's enemy. [ R. Lowe ]
No slave, to lazy ease resign'd,
E'er triumphed over noble foes;
The monarch, Fortune, most is kind
To him who bravely dares oppose. [ Cervantes ]
Humanity is constitutionally lazy. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
Fair and foolish, black and proud,
Long and lazy, little and loud. [ Proverb ]
A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy. [ Proverb ]
A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind. [ Dryden ]
A lazy ox is little better for the goad. [ Proverb ]
The lazy servant to save one step, goes eight. [ Proverb ]
Towards evening the lazy man begins to be busy. [ German Proverb ]
So work the honey-bees;
Creatures, that by a rule in nature teach
The art of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they, with merry march, bring home.
To the tent royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum.
Delivering over to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone. [ William Shakespeare ]
As lazy as Ludlam's dog, that leaned his head against the wall to bark. [ Proverb ]
The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [ Horace ]
Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain; the lazy man never. [ Ben. Franklin ]
Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars. [ Whipple ]