In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the… — Polybius Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue;… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
“A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death,… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep. — John Keats Copy Share Image
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed." — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
