Sloth Quotes
149 quotes by 104 authors
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I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on…
— Christopher Isherwood
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The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and…
— John Chancellor
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There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.
— Tim Ferriss
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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
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A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I…
— Michael Flanders
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What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in…
— Os Guinness
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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats…
— Ben Jonson
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My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
— Larry David
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Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
— Reid Hoffman
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People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
— Bob Hope
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Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.
— Elizabeth Hurley
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Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to…
— Simon Mainwaring
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The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony.…
— Dave Mustaine
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
— Quintilian
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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
— Jules Renard
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Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Who Wrote These Sloth Quotes
104 authors contributed a total of 149 Sloth Quotes, led by these top contributors: