These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens… — Will Cuppy 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
Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by… — Arthur Adamov Copy Share Image
What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, -… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“Sloth is the thief of time. The character defect of putting off actions “until things get better” is one of the most… — Bill P Copy Share Image
O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
“The Sloth would sit on his couch, paralyzed by all the things he wasn't taking care of. Then one day, a Wednesday,… — Andrew Kaufman Copy Share Image
By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no… — Eugene H. Peterson 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
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“In the fourth century, John Cassian described a condition among his fellow monks that he called “acedia”: a “weariness or distress of… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
Some sins have no season. We are as likely to be angry in November as to lose our rag in March ...… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life.… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Having confidence in a free society is to focus on the process of discovery in the marketplace of values rather than to… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that… — Leonard of Port Maurice Copy Share Image
![“I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our…” quote by Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/706/stephen-jay-gould-885_affinity_i-am-willing-to-believe-that-my-unobtain_1904997.jpg)
