“Sloth is the natural result of unrewarded hard work among the poor, reason enough for them to be prickly.” — Lao She 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
Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to… — Richard of Chichester Copy Share Image
Everybody knows how lazy he is. One day the neighbors saw Fang mow the lawn and I got three Get Well cards. — Phyllis Diller 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
Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Sid [the character from 'Ice Age'] is a prehistoric sloth. Sloths move really slowly and they store food in the cheek pouches.… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Sloths have low metabolisms, so they have to move slowly in order to conserve energy. However, they aren't aimless or "lazy" and… — Ann Burton Copy Share Image
The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
No one has become immortal by sloth; nor has any parent prayed that his children should live forever; but rather that they… — Sallust 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
At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes… — Mark Steyn 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
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
“Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment. A good-natured smile is forever on its lips...I… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly.… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin.… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time. — Ann Burton 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
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
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
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 feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker. — Guy Maddin 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
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 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
Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their… — Ann Burton Copy Share Image
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms… — Douglas Adams 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
Your husband is lazy if coffee doesn't keep him awake - even when it's hot and being spilled on him. — Phyllis Diller 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
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
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