This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre,… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“God's prayer-line is not a wheel of fortune or lottery for the indolent.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Everybody knows how lazy he is. One day the neighbors saw Fang mow the lawn and I got three Get Well cards. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
They are travelling cheaply, with that touch of indolence and occasional luxury that comes only from having real resources. They live in… — James Salter Copy Share Image
