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
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
Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness. — Plato 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
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 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
The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you that every man, whether he is born rich or poor, is obliged to do something in this world—to… — Carlo Collodi 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
And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful,… — Sarah Smiley Copy Share Image
I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You victorious martyrs who endured torments gladly for the sake of God and Savior, you who have boldness of speech toward the… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
“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
“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
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
Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life… — John Hardon 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
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
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
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
“Hard grind got us the glory, the saying goes—but sloth will slide us back into the sea. And these days, the rising… — Jessie Burton 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to… — Ray Bradbury 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
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
“Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related… — Ray Bradbury 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
