Contentment Quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,…

— Maria Edgeworth

In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing…

— Polybius

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of…

— Tryon Edwards

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

— Stephen Fry

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the…

— Voltaire

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

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

— Edward Gibbon

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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