Sloth Quotes

149 quotes by 107 authors

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. — Henry Adams
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. — Ambrose Bierce
Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a… — Anthony Bourdain
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. — Benjamin Franklin
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. — Mignon McLaughlin
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable. — Henry David Thoreau
The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after. — John Lyly
Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard. — William Shakespeare
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. — Samuel Johnson
The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man. — James Boswell
Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut… — Pietro Aretino
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. — Samuel Johnson
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing. — Washington Irving
Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like… — Albert Einstein
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business. — Samuel Johnson
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all… — George Bernard Shaw
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity. — Dean Koontz

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