“Hoping is what people do when they're too lazy to do anything else.”
Tim Winton book Cloudstreet
Part 5, section 19 - p.175
Novels, Cloudstreet (1991)
“Hoping is what people do when they're too lazy to do anything else.”
Tim Winton book Cloudstreet
Part 5, section 19 - p.175
Novels, Cloudstreet (1991)
"Weird Al" Yankovic (1959) American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist
"Couch Potato", Poodle Hat.
Song lyrics
“Lazy people are always looking for something to do.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
As quoted in Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 466.
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Man and the Gospel (1865) by Thomas Guthrie "and you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it."
“We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to.” -- Alexander Pope (1727).
Misattributed
Variant: If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it.
Bob Nygaard private detective specializing in psychic fraud
How Modern Fortunetellers Pull Off Their Scams https://web.archive.org/web/20180222195134/http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/how-modern-fortunetellers-pull-off-their-scams-6352098, Broward Palm Beach New Times (6 June 2013)
“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Abbie Hoffman (1936–1989) American political and social activist
Source: Revolution for the Hell of It (1968), p. 135.
“People are so lazy, they want everything to be simple, but nothing is simple. Nothing.”
Malcolm Azania book The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Source: The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2004), Chapter 31 “Saturday Morning Mission” (p. 173)