As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so. — Mary Wollstonecraft 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
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
“God's prayer-line is not a wheel of fortune or lottery for the indolent.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body. — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
“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
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
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
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
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
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous… — Tom Hodgkinson 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
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
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
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
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
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
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the… — Polybius Copy Share Image
“Rich, you said?” The Trell struggled to drag the conversation away from what he knew to be a looming precipice. “More like… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“I do nothing, with as little shame as satisfaction. It is the state that suits me best. I write the odd poem… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“ I was young at Myna, that first time. When had the change come? He had retreated to here, to Collegium, to… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain… — Thomas Chalmers 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
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The town of L— represented the earth, with its sorrows and its graves left behind, yet not out of sight, nor wholly… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
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