Cushions Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Indolence is the devil's cushion.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cushions Devil Indolence
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 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
Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“For really it was the refinement of civilized cruelty, this spick, span, and ingenious affair of shining leather and gleaming steel, which hoisted you… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
I have come to realised that there is no devil, it is D-evil in the heart of humans that the English refers to as… — Moyo Adekoya Copy Share Image
There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm not saying this because I'm looking for a soft cushion wherever I'm heading, I just feel that I've got thousands and thousands of… — Eazy-E Copy Share Image
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
In some Churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christianity popular and pleasant. We have taken the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
If airline seat cushions are such great flotation devices, why don't you ever see anyone take one to the beach? — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think… — Anthea Turner Copy Share Image
In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The book [Night manager] is amazing. It is amazing to act in any book adaptation, because a book gives you so many secrets and… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
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