Quotes by Indolence Enjoyment stops where indolence begins. Robert Pollok idleness enjoyment indolence The love of indolence is universal, or next to it. Samuel Taylor Coleridge indolence next laziness Indolence is the devil's cushion. Samuel Johnson cushions indolence devil Indolence is stagnation; employment is life. Seneca the Younger stagnation indolence employment Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. Tacitus indolence fame men 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 indolence nests self Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. Thomas Chandler Haliburton refined indolence contentment Comfort and indolence are cronies. Thomas Hood cronies indolence comfort It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence. Tom Stoppard indolence rigour character Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter. Voltaire bitter indolence sweet 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. William Hazlitt indolence action happiness 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. William Wilberforce indolence providence hands «12
