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Indolence Quotes

1.
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
Abu Bakr

Authors on Indolence Quotes: Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Francois de La Rochefoucauld Seneca the Younger Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Mary Wollstonecraft Voltaire Noel Coward William Hazlitt Robert Pollok Edward Gibbon Michael Flanders Theodore L. Cuyler William Wilberforce Ovid Abu Bakr Luc de Clapiers Thomas Chandler Haliburton Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tacitus Georg C. Lichtenberg Benjamin Haydon Thomas Hood Joseph Hertz Samuel Johnson Georg Brandes David Riesman Tom Stoppard John Keats Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christina, Queen of Sweden
2.
We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
Christina, Queen of Sweden

3.
A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4.
Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
Voltaire

5.
It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
Tom Stoppard

6.
Indolence,
languid as it is,
often masters both passions and virtues.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

7.
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
Tacitus

8.
Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

9.
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.
David Riesman

10.
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
Luc de Clapiers

11.
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.
Edward Gibbon

12.
Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.
Noel Coward

13.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

14.
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

15.
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
Ovid

16.
As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.
Mary Wollstonecraft

17.
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

18.
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.
Michael Flanders

19.
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
Seneca the Younger

20.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
William Hazlitt

21.
Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.
Robert Pollok

22.
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.
Theodore L. Cuyler

23.
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.
John Keats

24.
Indolence is the devil's cushion.
Samuel Johnson

25.
Comfort and indolence are cronies.
Thomas Hood

26.
We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

27.
The sluggard is a living insensible.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

28.
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
Benjamin Haydon

29.
What is public opinion? It is private indolence.
Georg Brandes

30.
The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

31.
Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.
Joseph Hertz

32.
Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion.
William Wilberforce