Quotes About Sloth

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great.

If thy prayer doth not set thee on work, neither will it set thy God at work for thee. Is it a lust thou art praying against? And dost thou sit down idle to see whether it will now die alone? Will that prayer slay one lust that lets another—thy sloth, I mean —live under its nose? As God will not save thy soul, so neither will he destroy thy sin, unless thy hand also be put to the work.

Sloth is not cured with sleep, nor laziness with idleness.

God hath ap pointed prayer as a help to our diligence, not as a cloak for our sloth.

In the evening of that day, after completing my preparations, I supped on the remaining portions of the sloth, not suitable for preservation, roasting bits of fat on the coals and boiling the head and bones into a broth; and after swallowing the liquid I crunched the bones and sucked the marrow...

Power makes you lazy.

Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.

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?

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

I'm lazy and lying requires too much effort.

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.

They delight in sloth, they detest tranquility.

fiecare pisalog e un atentator, dar lenea activa e cea mai perfida forma a genocidului.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Terri would have made the perfect wife for Bob – they could have simply slept their way through married life. Rip van Winkle and Duchess Anaesthesia, the lost, sleepy daughter of the Romanovs.

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.

WearinessCan snore upon the flint when resty slothFinds the down pillow hard.

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

If you just feel lazy and don't want to cook, then don't cook.

All his [Laurent's] great powerful body wanted was to do nothing, to wallow in never-ending idleness and self-indulgence. He would have liked to eat well, sleep well, satisfy his passions liberally, without stirring from one spot or risking the misfortune of a bit of fatigue.

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.