Quotes About Sloth

I am very lazy.

I'm kind of lazy.

all the beasts from sloth to pigmy shrew, arrayed silently in ordered cavalcade as if waiting admission to the Ark.

Laziness, I am afraid, was Charles's distinguishing trait.

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

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ? that is, activity ? which could solve it, is seen as odious. Archery? It is too cold, and besides, the butts need re-covering; the rats have been at the straw. Music? To hear it is tedious; to compose it, too taxing. And so on. Of all the afflictions, boredom is ultimately the most unmanning. Eventually, it transforms you into a great nothing who does nothing ? a cousin to sloth and a brother to melancholy.

Ai, que preguiça!

In a culture where busyness is a fetish and stillness is laziness, rest is sloth. But without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply.

describing any particular day in Manaus as staggeringly hot and humid is a little like describing one particular sloth as exceptionally upside down. It's rarely anything else.

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

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

Trust in God was a great excuse for sloth and lack of planning.

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

Laziness is one of my best characteristics

He who does not rouse himself when it is time to rise; who, though young and strong, is full of sloth; whose will and thoughts are weak; that lazy and idle man will never find the way to enlightenment.

Sevme, içme ve tembellik haricinde Tembellik edelim her ÅŸeyde. (Lessing)

Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing? Have you declared yourself enlightened? Damn your weak philosophies; a pox and a pestilence your despicable sloth and arrogance.

Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.

The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.