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
“Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?” — Hannah More 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
When he proposed he said, "We'll make such beautiful music together," but in this duet, his part seems to be all rests. — Phyllis Diller 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. Action is no less necessary than thought… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know… — Rudyard Kipling 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
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't… — William H. Gass 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
Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his… — Alexander MacLaren 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
If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of… — Lydia Sigourney 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
Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
