Brutes Quote by Lord Chesterfield

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

— Anonymous

Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of…

— Antoinette Perry

Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.

— Robert Pollok

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run,…

— Richard Cecil

Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but…

— Will Self

He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.

— John Keats

Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . .…

— Francois Fenelon

Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools

— Lord Chesterfield

“A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“A sloppy half-Windsor is the first symptom of serial indolence' she replied in the patronizing voice that Yellows reserved for Rule-breakers, 'and ignoring the…

— Jasper Fforde

To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

— Fanny Lewald

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown