Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence. — Mahavira Copy Share Image
Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse… — William Wilberforce 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
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body. — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires. — James Hutton 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
Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this… — Willi Munzenberg Copy Share Image
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“More and more individuals, owing to their bloodless indolence, will aspire to be nothing at all--in order to become the public: that… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded… — Mark Twain 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
Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. Men came to… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
“You appear to me not to have understood the nature of my body & mind. Partly from ill-health, & partly from an… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is… — Abu Bakr Copy Share Image
As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But… — Michael Flanders Copy Share Image
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
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