Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by…

For me, the whole fame and industry facade is a load of rubbish.

— Tulisa

Unfortunately, we are part of an industry where if a man and woman have worked together for such a long period of time, they…

— Luv Ranjan

“People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should only be a means to ensure to man his material subsistence and…

— Rudolf Rocker

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

— Lord Chesterfield

Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.

— Robert Pollok

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run,…

— Richard Cecil

Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but…

— Will Self

He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.

— John Keats

“A sloppy half-Windsor is the first symptom of serial indolence' she replied in the patronizing voice that Yellows reserved for Rule-breakers, 'and ignoring the…

— Jasper Fforde

To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

— Fanny Lewald

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown

And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth…

— David Hume

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,…

— Maria Edgeworth

In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing…

— Polybius