Sloth Quotes - Page 3

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

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.

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.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

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.

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

Once Fang took pep pills and they worked - the only time he ever ran to bed.

Everybody knows how much time Fang spends in bed. A local store that gives a 30 days' trial on mattresses gives Fang only 15 days.

When he proposed he said, "We'll make such beautiful music together," but in this duet, his part seems to be all rests.

Everybody knows how lazy he is. One day the neighbors saw Fang mow the lawn and I got three Get Well cards.

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

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.

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Sloth is all passions the most powerful.

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.'

I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed."

A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

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.

I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.