[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
Your husband is lazy if the directions on his medicine say, "A teaspoon before going to bed," and in one day he… — 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
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness. — Plato Copy Share Image
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath,… — Dave Mustaine 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
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Of all the dangerous ideas that health officials could have embraced while trying to understand why we get fat, they would have… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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