Sloth Quotes - Page 4

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

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.

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?

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.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

Jack, you've debauched my sloth.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth.

I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.

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.

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

Hereditary sloth instructs me.

Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.

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.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.

There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

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.