Sluggard Quotes
15 quotes by 13 authors
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Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because…
— Cyril Connolly
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Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
— Samuel Johnson
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If you cannot be merciful, at least speak as though you are a sinner. If you are not a peacemaker, at least do not be…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no…
— Winston Churchill
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Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.
— Isaac Watts
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We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways…
— Franklin P. Adams
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
— Elizabeth Smart
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I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.
— David Mitchell
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The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a…
— John James Audubon
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I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because…
— Cyril Connolly
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Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
— Benjamin Franklin
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'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
— Isaac Watts
Who Wrote These Sluggard Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 15 Sluggard Quotes as follows: