Avoiding Responsibilities Quotes

Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.

How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.

You ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all? Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house, you realize you have a letter for a neighbor. You ever just look at the letter and go "Hm. Looks like they're never getting this. It'll take too much energy to go back outside. I'm gonna get that to them later on. Right now I gotta watch some 'Love Connection.' They got some new host on there."

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

'Never do the dishes without music,' my brother Mark once advised me - the same brother who once ate a spoonful of refrigerated dog food to escape his turn at the kitchen sink. And really, it may be the most sensible advice I've been given.

I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.

All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities.

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

I feel like I get all the good parts of college, cause I just college hop on the weekends and party with them, but I don't have to do any of the school part or the work part.

If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope.

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

I used to sort of take the phone off the hook, you know, put my feet up and watch the TV until it was all over.

soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m., be back in my room by 2, stretched on the bed, waiting for the phone to ring, not answering, my holiday is an evasion, mt reasoning is not.

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

I will read anything rather than work.

There is no avoidance in delay.

Gosh, it was nice talking to you, but I’ve got a lot of things I’d rather be doing. Like sticking my hand in the garbage disposal.

By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.

When my kids were younger, I used to avoid them. I used to sit on the toilet 'til my legs fell asleep. You want to know why your father spends so long in the toilet? Because he's not sure he wants to be a father.