Indolent Quotes
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.
— Luc De Clapiers
I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.
— Deborah Eisenberg
Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.
— Albert Einstein
Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
But time was a beast, a big, indolent immovable beast that wasn't interested in my efforts at hastening it in any direction.
— Piper Kerman
In indolent vacuity of thought.
— William Cowper
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
— John Philpot Curran
The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.
— Mason Cooley
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
— Halldor Laxness
Cathy introduced us. Christine stood there inside her smooth skin, warm and indolent, mildly speculative.
— John D. MacDonald
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
— Ambrose Bierce
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
— William Cowper
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
— Hilaire Belloc
Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.
— Orison Swett Marden
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
— William Hazlitt
Maybe am too much on men, but sincerely, today's man has literally grown indolent in love. He fast falls asleep even before night conversations begin
— Francis Otieno
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
— Pliny The Younger
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
— Benjamin Haydon
Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent.
— Sunday Adelaja
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
— Jules Verne
As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.
— Dorothea Dix
The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.
— Terry Pratchett
If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor ... Also
somewhat inconsistently
blessed are the poor! — George Bernard Shaw
somewhat inconsistently
blessed are the poor! — George Bernard Shaw
Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
I admire and look up to heroes, but indolent men make the best lovers.
— Harriette Wilson