Sloth famous quotes
04-09-2025
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Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.
-- A. H. Weiler -
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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 night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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 squandering till the very end.
-- Christopher Isherwood -
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
-- Dean Koontz -
As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
-- Edward Abbey -
I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?
-- Elizabeth Bishop -
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 -
Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.
-- Eugene H. Peterson -
Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.
-- Eugene H. Peterson -
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 -
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 nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean.
-- Gary Taubes -
A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.
-- George Stillman Hillard -
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 it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.
-- Gregory Maguire -
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
-- Henry Adams -
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
-- Horace -
To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.
-- James Lee Burke -
Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.
-- Jarvis Cocker -
Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life requires effort. Everything we do is to be a means of salvation. The slothful person is unwilling to do what God wants because of the effort it takes to do it. Sloth becomes a sin when it slows down and even brings to a halt the energy we must expend in using the means to salvation.
-- John Hardon -
The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
-- John Lyly -
Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
-- John Milton -
I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
-- Kajol -
Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth.
-- Ken Schoolland -
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their intellectual sloth for their "principles," to their rhetorical cleverness for their "conscience," and to their regimented conformism for their "philosophy."
-- Kenny Smith -
And I thought, there's a sloth near. There's a sloth here, it's close, it's gonna happen. And I didn't know how to process that, because my entire life had been waiting for this moment.
-- Kristen Bell -
It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.
-- Louise Penny -
Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.
-- Max De Pree -
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.
-- Michael Flanders -
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 the blood.
-- Os Guinness -
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
-- Ovid -
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
-- Quintilian -
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 -
The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada), sloth (alasya), dissipation (avirati), false vision (bhranti-darshana), nonattainment of yogic states (alabdha-bhumikatva), and instability in these states (anavasthitatva).
-- Richard Rosen -
It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'
-- Rudyard Kipling -
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
-- Samuel Johnson -
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 build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.
-- Simon Mainwaring -
Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.
-- Theophrastus -
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
-- Vladimir Nabokov -
Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.
-- Warren Buffett -
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
-- Washington Irving -
Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.
-- Wendy Wasserstein -
The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.
-- Will Cuppy -
To be rich be diligent; move on Like heav'ns great movers that enrich the earth; Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone; And make the spring straight bury all her birth. Rich are the diligent who can command Time--nature's stock.
-- William Davenant -
I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
-- William Shakespeare -
Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.
-- Ann Burton -
Sloths actually are like furry living ecosystems all by themselves! Algae grows on their fur and they are also home to "sloth moths" who call them home and drink their tears.
-- Ann Burton -
The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder, magic, and happiness to all other species. Did you know that every other animal's favorite animal is the sloth?
-- Ann Burton -
Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood.
-- Ann Burton -
A sloth once whispered in my ear and told me that when he is clinging to branches he closes his eyes and imagines that he's still a baby holding on to his mama.
-- Ann Burton -
You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.
-- Conor Cruise O'Brien -
We as the band are passionate and energetic musicians. We have minimised the amount of self-criticism. Fear of death, total impatience and an unconcerned attitude to weary notions of good and bad is what's making us exceed speed limits. We're hijacking the holy inspiration from otherness, and we don't spoil it with personal aesthetic preferences. We are panthers and gazelles, not slugs and tortoises. Though it must be said that after turning forty I've started to resemble a sloth more and more.
-- Jussi Lehtisalo -
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
-- Cato the Younger -
The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. -
I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.
-- Julie Schumacher -
Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you lose your soul, you lose all.
-- Leonard of Port Maurice
