Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Indolence is heaven's ally here, And energy the child of hell: The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the… — Herman Melville 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
One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering… — Alexander Herrmann Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in… — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence. — Mahavira Copy Share Image
Everybody knows how much time Fang spends in bed. A local store that gives a 30 days' trial on mattresses gives Fang… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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
When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
“It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object… — Jerome Klapka Jerome Copy Share Image
In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires. — James Hutton Copy Share Image
The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga,… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours… — Erma Bombeck 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
Those who, either from their own engagements and hurry of business, or from indolence, or from conceit and vanity, have neglected looking… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
