Quotes of Torpor - somelinesforyou

“ He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. ”

- Bible

“ The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. ”

- Bible

“ Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ 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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

“ 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

“ Idleness is the parent of psychology. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ 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

“ Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.). ”

- Horace

“ The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Sir James Mackintosh. ”

- Sir James Mackintosh

“ A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness. ”

- Phaedrus

“ Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness. ”

- Robertson Davies

“ The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. ”

- Larry Wall

“ Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. ”

- William Cobbett

“ Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ”

- Jules Renard

“ The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip. ”

- James M. Barrie

“ You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip. ”

- J. M. Barrie

“ It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. ”

- Hesiod

“ Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. ”

- Mario Andretti

“ Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. ”

- Jean Paul Richter
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