You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you…

— Leonard of Port Maurice

What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're…

— Charlie Munger

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

— Horace

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

— Horace

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

— Horace

Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

— Horace

In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to…

— Kenny Smith

I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at…

— Gregory Maguire

What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison…

— Os Guinness

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

— Harrison Ford

The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the Cape; the…

— Patrick O'Brian

“For me, it´s sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

— William Shakespeare

“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their…

— Anonymous