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"The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy." »Sir B. Brodie
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"There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return." »Franz Kafka
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"indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent." »Plato
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"Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy." »Jean de la Bruyere
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"You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books." »Voltaire
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"You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books." »Voltaire
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| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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