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Sloth Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
- Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
- Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues
- Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
- Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at…
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- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — 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.… — 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