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Indolence is the devil's cushion.
Comfort and indolence are cronies.
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
The sluggard is a living insensible.
Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
What is public opinion? It is private indolence.
Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.
We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.
It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.
I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.
A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]
As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.
Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
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.
As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.
I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.
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.
Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.
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.
Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.