Indolence Quotes

89 quotes by 75 authors

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest. — Abu Bakr
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. — Ambrose Bierce
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. — Lord Chesterfield
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you… — Benjamin Haydon
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life. — Seneca the Younger
I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy. — Bernard Williams
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. — Mahatma Gandhi
None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires. — James Hutton
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all… — Willa Cather
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be… — David Hume
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. Men came to earth consciously to… — Spencer W. Kimball
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the… — Jane Austen
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. — Edward Abbey
Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence. — Jean Cocteau
Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. — Plato
It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the… — Edmund Ruffin
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between… — Charles Lyell
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope… — Maria Edgeworth

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