As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. — Yann Martel 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
I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin… — Kajol Copy Share Image
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed." — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
“I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?” — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and… — Gautama Buddha 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
Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after. — John Lyly Copy Share Image
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way… — Yann Martel 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
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
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. — Ovid Copy Share Image
