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
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But… — Michael Flanders 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
Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be… — Elizabeth Hurley Copy Share Image
Pre-competition rituals include nap time, because when competition rolls around, I'm a sloth. I also FaceTime my dogs. — Mirai Nagasu Copy Share Image
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never… — Cyril Connolly 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
The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your… — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
Given that you're meeting a sloth, that feeling is generally joy, excitement, warmth, and love. What do those feelings smell like, you… — Ann Burton Copy Share Image
To be rich be diligent; move on Like heav'ns great movers that enrich the earth; Whose moment's sloth would show the world… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their… — Kenny Smith 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
In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Descending the endless stairs for the sixth time, Mr. Lecky thought of all the goods those closed doors hid. Fantastic was the… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
It's all about respect; he's looking for respect from his buddies. In the last one he just wanted to hang out, to… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
And I thought, there's a sloth near. There's a sloth here, it's close, it's gonna happen. And I didn't know how to… — Kristen Bell 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
The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
As winter approaches - bringing cold weather and family drama - we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
A sloth once whispered in my ear and told me that when he is clinging to branches he closes his eyes and… — Ann Burton Copy Share Image
Sloths actually are like furry living ecosystems all by themselves! Algae grows on their fur and they are also home to "sloth… — Ann Burton 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
Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the… — Wendy Wasserstein 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 is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
