Indolence famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 -
I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.
-- Bernard Williams -
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
What is public opinion? It is private indolence.
-- Georg Brandes -
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.
-- John Keats -
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
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 -
The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
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 -
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton -
Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.
-- Joseph Hertz -
We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden
