This page is dedicated to all the Weird Holidays in our calendar.
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When is National Lazy Day?
August 10 is always National Lazy Day.
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What is this Holiday for?
To honor and enjoy a nice lazy day of doing nothing at all. Let this holiday be the day you forget all about your work, chores and erronds. Let your mind and body be lazy for a the whole day and re-energize your spirit. Let today be the day you find a new way to be lazy and enjoy every minute of it.
If you enjoy lazy day holidays like this one, then you will surely love National Relaxation Day too. It's another day just for doing nothing but relaxing.
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Origin of this Holiday?
Our research did not find the creator, or the origin of this day.
This holiday is referred to as a "National" day. However, we did not find any congressional records or presidential proclamations for this day. Even though we didn't, this is still a holiday that is publicized to celebrate. So have fun with it and celebrate it the way holidays should be celebrated!
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Definition of Laziness
Laziness is the lack of desire to perform work or expend effort. What behavior is considered laziness varies according to personal and societal standards. Chronic laziness may be an underlying psychological condition.
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Fun Lazy Quotations
Why pick the fruit from the tree when someone can pick it for you?
Anonymous
I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
Bernie Williams
To cease to act is to cease to exist.
Voltaire (attributed)
Laziness lends assistance to fatigue.
Anonymous
Laziness pays off today, work only tomorrow.
Anonymous
A lazy man looks for light employment.
Anonymous
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow.
Norwegian proverbs
Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
Jimmy Lyons
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Mortimer Caplan
The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
W. C. Fields
Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it.
Thomas Taylor
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
Marquis De Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims (1746)
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
Cyril Connolly
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
Charles Spurgeon
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.
Thomas Buxton
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
Henry Ford
For I must go where lazy Peace
Will hide her drowsy head;
And, for the sport of kings, increase
The number of the dead.
William Davenant
Laziness is a virtue. Those who can be bothered to tell you otherwise are clearly lacking it.
Emery Finkelstein
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Lazy Day Cartoon
How can I Celebrate this holiday?
- Have a lazy day in the back yard! - Grab those pillows and blanket and have a relaxing day laying under your favorite shade tree in the back yard. Absorb in all the nature sounds, the rustle of the trees and the feel of the wind.
- Blog with us about it! - We have a blog called "Everyday is a Holiday" so visit our pages and tell us about your favorite cleaning day or your favorite cleaner recipe.
- Send Free E-Greeting! - If your ready to get together with your friends don't forget to invite them with these fun Internet Invitations.
