When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon… — Adam Smith 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
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body. — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
“The indolence I love is not that of a lazy fellow who sits with his arms across in total inaction, and thinks… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they… — Franz Kafka 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
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
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
It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much… — Edmund Ruffin 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
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
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
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
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are… — John Stuart Mill 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
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
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
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
The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the… — T. Coleman Andrews Copy Share Image
