Quotes About Indolence

You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin.

Vanity, complacency, and indolence were a curse, since bravery was an ascending slope and one could not rest on it. One must succeed in rising to every challenge except the ones that would destroy us needlessly.

The air was full of human essence, of artificial enticement, of coquetry, indolence, pleasure — the man-made sense of existence.

Idleness is the beginning of all vices.

Humankind above all is lazy.

I admire and look up to heroes, but indolent men make the best lovers.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly false too.

My good creature," cried the Rocket in a very haughty tone of voice, "I see that you belong to the lower orders.  A person of my position is never useful.  We have certain accomplishments, and that is more than sufficient.  I have no sympathy myself with industry of any kind, least of all with such industries as you seem to recommend.  Indeed, I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

the world is full of slackers who only turn out when the weather suits them.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Our capacity of appreciating the beauties of the earth we live on is, in truth, one of the civilised accomplishments which we all learn as an Art; and, more, that very capacity is rarely practised by any of us except when our minds are most indolent and most unoccupied.

the two girls emanated an incorrigible idle inertia.

Human beings are the laziest creatures in the history of creation. We would rather not do anything if we could avoid it.

Vanity takes a lot of work. I'm too lazy to be vain.

The indolence I love is not that of a lazy fellow who sits with his arms across in total inaction, and thinks no more than he acts,... ...but that of a child which is incessantly in motion doing nothing, and that of a dotard who wanders from his subject.

Pero la indolencia, el descuido y las dilaciones en los pequeños deberes que tenía que llenar, me han hecho más daño que los grandes vicios.

My passion was dead. For years it had rolled over and submerged me; now I felt empty. But that wasn't the worst: before me, posed with a sort of indolence, was a voluminous, insipid idea. I did not see clearly what it was, but it sickened me so much I couldn't look at it.

I'm just lazy.

Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and no good.

Dexter the sofa spud ...

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

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.

abundance proffered too soon led to lassitude and indolence, a wandering dissatisfaction.

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.