Quotes by Indolence 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 indolence loan world Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent. Benjamin Haydon indolence difficult We grow old more through indolence, than through age. Christina, Queen of Sweden sweden indolence age 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. David Riesman indolence ethics generations Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton indolence busy love To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor. Edward Gibbon indolence painful mind Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues. Francois de La Rochefoucauld indolence virtue passion We have more indolence in the mind than in the body. Francois de La Rochefoucauld indolence body mind What is public opinion? It is private indolence. Georg Brandes indolence public-opinion opinion The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence. Georg C. Lichtenberg indolence misery humans Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann indolence conquer sin The sluggard is a living insensible. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann insensible indolence A useless life is an early death. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe indolence useless life He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep. John Keats awake indolence thinking Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion. Joseph Hertz portions indolence men Indolence is the sleep of the mind. Luc de Clapiers indolence mind sleep As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so. Mary Wollstonecraft indolence sex 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 indolence sloth ease Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing. Noel Coward indolence courses He who would not be idle, let him fall in love. Ovid indolence falling-in-love fall 12»