Sloth Quote by Joseph Epstein Download Open image “I know how deeply slothful I am.” — Joseph Epstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sloth
“What precipices are sloth and pleasure! To do nothing is a sorry resolve to take; are you aware of that? To live in indolence… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird. — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and mental imprisonment....” — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living simply. A… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with… — Joseph Epstein 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
