Indolent Quotes

53 Indolent quotes by 44 unique authors

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth. — Immanuel Hermann Fichte
What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts. — Horace
Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive… — Frederick Douglass
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an… — Joseph Addison
England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to… — Dan Smoot
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. — William Hazlitt
The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise… — Edward Everett Hale
There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success… — William Hazlitt
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. — Hilaire Belloc
The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that… — Muriel Barbery
No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His… — Robert A. Heinlein
He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker… — Jude Deveraux
Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run… — Hugh Nibley
If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is… — Gertrude Stein
There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond to the first… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his hand into the… — Unknown Author
The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having… — James Payn
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish. — Jules Verne
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying… — Rick Perlstein
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. — John Philpot Curran
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent. — Oliver Goldsmith
Hey your so smart well once you tell the definiton of braggadocio and...Acclaim Accolade Adamant Advocate Affable Alienate Altruistic Ambiguous Amity Anarchy Apathy Appease Asperity… — MrAwesome

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