Samuel Johnson Sloth Quotations

Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.