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
Your husband is lazy if coffee doesn't keep him awake - even when it's hot and being spilled on him. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Once Fang took pep pills and they worked - the only time he ever ran to bed. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing. — Noel Coward 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
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. — Toni Morrison 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
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
I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that… — Christopher Isherwood 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
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
I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have… — Harriet Martineau 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
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
Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their… — Ha-Joon Chang 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing… — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease,… — Frederic Dan Huntington Copy Share Image
Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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 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
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
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
I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time.… — Grace Paley 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
