Bitter Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bitter Consequence Indolence Sweet
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
Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Troy was a sweet, good man. We just were never destined to be married. We just didn't have the same values. But I'm not… — Suzanne Pleshette Copy Share Image
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“I doubt taking in a sullen, bitter, teenage girl with more issues than National Geographic is at the center of the vision board for… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more… — Jane March Copy Share Image
I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of their career.… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
