The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. — Ovid 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
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. — William Shakespeare 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
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
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead Copy Share Image
When he proposed he said, "We'll make such beautiful music together," but in this duet, his part seems to be all rests. — 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
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot… — John Ortberg 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
[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
Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance,… — Larry King Copy Share Image
The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I envy because of the heart I glutton because of the heart I covet because of the heart I am prideful because… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from… — Robert B. Leighton Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages, the sin of sloth had two forms,” he said. “One was paralysis, the inability to do anything—what we… — Brigid Schulte 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
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
“We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
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
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
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Once Fang took pep pills and they worked - the only time he ever ran to 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
A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
![“[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you…” quote by Marya Mannes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c1/marya-mannes-6222_comfort_the-sea-is-the-healer-and-the-reviver-it_2686471.png)
