Indolence Quotes

• People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

  Bob Hope

  Love, Kissing, Lazy People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Edward Gibbon

  Mind, Painful, Labor

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Misery, Humans, Greater

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• Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

  Voltaire

  Sweet, Bitter, Consequence

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• It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

  Tom Stoppard

  Character, Rigour

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• Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Contentment, Refined

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• Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

  Plato

  Luxury, Parent, Poverty

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.110, Anchor

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• I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.

  Bernard Williams

  Humorous, Lazy Man, Profound

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• A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things - maybe he's just trying to be like his daddy.

  Gracie Allen

  Funny, Boys, Daddy

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• Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Influence, Silent

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.265, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Sleep, Mind

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Réflexions, 390, p. 384-85, 1922.

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• I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Suicide, Men, Looks

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.233, Wildside Press LLC

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• The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, Witty, Morning

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• Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Suffering, Age, Reputation

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.467

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• The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

  John Mason Brown

  Men, Trials, Action

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• Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

  James Madison

  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

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• Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Thoughtful, Action

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• 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

  World, Loan, Abode

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• Your husband is lazy if when he leaves the house, he finds out which way the wind is blowing and goes that direction.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Husband, Wind

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• I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Taken, Night

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• I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

  Willa Cather

  Stars, Dark, Moon

  Willa Cather (1998). “Obscure Destinies”, p.175, U of Nebraska Press

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• When he proposed he said, "We'll make such beautiful music together," but in this duet, his part seems to be all rests.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Beautiful, Sloth

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

  Ovid

  Falling In Love, Fall, Idle

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• Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.

  Noel Coward

  Courses

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• Your husband is lazy if coffee doesn't keep him awake - even when it's hot and being spilled on him.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Husband, Coffee

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