Brutes Quote by Lord Chesterfield Download Open image “I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.” — Lord Chesterfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brutes Idleness Indolence Look up Looks Suicide
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. — Anonymous 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 to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Yeah, never thoughts of suicide. I'm too alive but I still treat it likes it's do or die. — Drake Copy Share Image
“A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, “Suicide is selfishness.” Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call it… — David Mitchell 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
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Secret thoughts and an open countenance will take you safely the world over” — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster:… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things? — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only… — Jack London Copy Share Image
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on… — Doyle Brunson Copy Share Image
In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
