Sloth Quote by Horace Download Open image “You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sloth Wicked
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
Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time. — Ann Burton Copy Share Image
Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap. — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace 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
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace 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 also their… — Anonymous 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
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison… — Os Guinness 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 bad at… — Gregory Maguire 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 "values," to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Sloths have no real natural body odor, which helps hide and protect them from potential predators. As a result, their natural smell is a… — Ann Burton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin. Remove the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
