There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When he proposed he said, "We'll make such beautiful music together," but in this duet, his part seems to be all rests. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead Copy Share Image
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“The opposite of sloth is not 'activity' or industriousness in a business sense. It is fortitude - including patience and long-suffering.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya),… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
You need not be proud of me… I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance,… — Larry King Copy Share Image
The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I envy because of the heart I glutton because of the heart I covet because of the heart I am prideful because… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent… — Mishka Copy Share Image
To try to stop war by placing before men's eyes the terrible suffering involved will never succeed, because men are willing (in… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I need inspiration, I usually go into a creative "slump" and become a total sloth. I watch a lot of movies,… — Haley Bonar Copy Share Image
Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We as the band are passionate and energetic musicians. We have minimised the amount of self-criticism. Fear of death, total impatience and… — Jussi Lehtisalo Copy Share Image
Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
