英语名人名言：Laziness 懒惰

　　I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

　　Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography1, 1977

　　Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

　　Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)

　　Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

　　Floyd Dell

　　Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay2 are dragged - towards evil.

　　Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Decorum

　　Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

　　Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)

　　Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

　　Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)

　　Indolence is a delightful3 but distressing4 state; we must be doing something to be happy.

　　Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

　　There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

　　Mary Wilson Little

　　That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

　　Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters

　　Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

　　Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

　　Never be entirely5 idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating6 or endeavoring something for the public good.

　　Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)

　　He that is busy is tempted7 by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.

　　Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661), Gnomologia, 1732

　　Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

　　Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

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