Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.

I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.

It's my favorite thing to do: luxurious nothing.

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.

I am having a good time doing nothing.

I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.

I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

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

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.

I've always loved the idea of 'Guilty Pleasures.'

I just want to enjoy myself and have fun.

To just slow yourself down, just to not do anything and drive around - I'm not like that. I'm not here to fill up the field.

My idea of the perfect day is nothing to do and a great book on the go.