Quotes of Lethargy - somelinesforyou

“ The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. ”

- Bible

“ I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Idleness is the parent of psychology. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. ”

- Bible

“ Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties. ”

- Lu Yu

“ The way to be nothing is to do nothing. ”

- Nathaniel Howe

“ The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end: and much study is a weariness of the flesh. ”

- Bible

“ Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness. ”

- Robertson Davies

“ If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast. ”

- George Herbert

“ Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over the soul. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life. ”

- Ilka Chase

“ Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear. ”

- Unknown

“ Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me. ”

- Aaron Allston

“ Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. ”

- Hesiod

“ Our greatest weariness comes from work not done. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. ”

- Jean Paul

“ To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ If a man will not work, he shall not eat. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ If a man will not work, he shall not eat. ”

- Bible

“ We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. ”

- Marcus Fabius Quintilian

“ Somebody's boring me. I think it's me. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. ”

- George Borrow

“ There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work. ”

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“ There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work. ”

- Charles Spurgeon
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