Horace Quotes

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Our own laziness taxes us more than kings...

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

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

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

I am capable of being idle.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

I can be a lazy slob.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

I have to watch out for being lazy.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

I work like a dog when I have to, but when I'm not working, I get terribly lazy and could sit around all day.

I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

I dream too much, work too little.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.