Quotes of Indolence - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ I never worry about action, but only about inaction. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. ”

- Jules Renard

“ Wealth… and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. ”

- Plato

“ Any time you got nothing to do — and lots of time to do it — come on up. ”

- Mae West

“ The way to be nothing is to do nothing. ”

- Nathaniel Howe

“ I like the word `indolence.' it makes my laziness seem classy. ”

- Bern Williams

“ I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ 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

“ Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. ”

- Jules Renard

“ Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. ”

- Floyd Dell

“ Once you're moving, you can keep moving. ”

- Ronald Alan Weiss

“ Many are called but few get up. ”

- Oliver Herford

“ It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all. ”

- James Thurber

“ Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies. ”

- La Rochefoucauld

“ He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything. ”

- Marquis de Vauvenargues

“ Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow — that is patience. ”

- Unknown

“ I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar. ”

- Bill Murray

“ Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow — that is patience. ”

- Unknown

“ The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer. ”

- Henry Clay

“ Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ”

- Sam Keen

“ All universal moral principles are idle fancies. ”

- Marquis de Sade

“ If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose. ”

- Jesse Jackson

“ Idleness is the parent of psychology. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Even the wise are confused about what is action and what is inaction. Therefore, I shall clearly explain what is action, knowing that one shall be liberated from the evil (of birth and death). ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ Canadians have seen nothing other than 100 days of inaction from the government. ”

- Stephen Harper

“ They've managed to keep their unemployment low although their overall unemployment is high. ”

- Bill Clinton

“ The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. ”

- Robert Farrar Capon

“ Inactivity is death. ”

- Benito Mussolini
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3