Rudyard Kipling Quotes

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.

Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."

Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.

A Dandy does nothing.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

(I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin appeased Hitler when he signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Stalin was an evil character, to be sure. But cowardice really isn't the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Stalin ' that word is “sexy.” I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.