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
4.
Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
Voltaire
5.
It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
Tom Stoppard
7.
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
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To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.
Edward Gibbon
10.
Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.
Noel Coward
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
Tacitus
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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
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He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.
John Keats
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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
20.
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
Ovid
21.
As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.
Mary Wollstonecraft
23.
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
27.
What is public opinion? It is private indolence.
Georg Brandes
29.
Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.
Joseph Hertz
30.
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