Quotes of Idler - somelinesforyou

“ The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. ”

- Bible

“ The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. ”

- Bible

“ How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. ”

- Bible

“ Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up? ”

- Albert Einstein

“ I remember reading somewhere about an organization called Procrastinators Anonymous. I think they had been in existence for some years but had never gotten around to having a meeting. ”

- Unknown

“ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. ”

- The Bible

“ A loafer always has the correct time. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody. ”

- Edgar Watson Howe

“ Hard work has a future. Laziness pays off now. ”

- Bumper Sticker

“ The reward for a job well done is more work. ”

- Unknown

“ Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun. ”

- Thomas Alva Edison

“ The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ The busy trifler dreams himself alone, / Frames many a purpose, and God works his own. ”

- William Cowper

“ I remember reading somewhere about an organization called Procrastinators Anonymous. I think they had been in existence for some years but had never gotten around to having a meeting. ”

- Unknown

“ Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing! ”

- Donald Gardner

“ Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. ”

- Bible

“ Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own. ”

- Smart

“ Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. ”

- Elizabeth Smart

“ A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. ”

- Robert Hughes

“ Plough deep while sluggards sleep. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide. ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier
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