Quotes About Sloth

The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

There are two cardinal human sins from which all others derive: impatience and indolence.

Laziness is almost as compelling as life.

I used to think I had integrity but I came to realize it was just sloth.

I am but an ordinary Man. The Times alone have destined me to Fame–and even these have not been able to give me, much. . . . Yet some great Events, some cutting Expressions, some mean Hypocrisies, have at Times, thrown this Assemblage of Sloth, Sleep, and littleness into Rage a little like a Lion.

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

La "fiaca" en el dialecto genovés expresa esto: "Desgarro físico originado por la falta de alimentación momentánea". Deseo de no hacer nada. Languidez. Sopor. Ganas de acostarse en una hamaca paraguaya durante un siglo. Deseos de dormir como los durmientes de Efeso durante ciento y pico de años

As winter approaches - bringing cold weather and family drama - we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

bana öyle geliyor ki, hakikaten yapabilece?imiz bir tek i? vard?r, o da ölmek. bak, bunu yapabiliriz ve ancak bu takdirde irademizi tam bir ?ey yapmakta kullanm?? oluruz. ben ne diye bu i?i yapm?yorum diyeceksin! demin söyledim ya, müthi? bir gev?eklik içindeyim. ü?eniyorum. atalet kanunu icab? sürüklenip gidiyorum.

Toys and fooleries at home, wars abroad: sometimes terror, sometimes torpor, or stupid sloth: this is thy daily slavery.

Languor is a more efficient method of control.

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

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.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.

How do you instruct a woman who's already survived incredible hardship, who's worked hard all her life, on how to live 'properly', when your life is, by contrast, a carefree wonderland of excess, sloth and caprice?

ne of the most noticeable changes had been a slowing down of the mad tempo that had so characterized the twentieth century. Life was more leisurely than it had been for generations. It therefore had less zest for the few, but more tranquility for the many. Western man had relearned what the rest of the world had never forgotten; That there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

Western man had relearned—what the rest of the world had never forgotten—that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

Nothing is more comfortable than not having to think.

The most overpowering will is the will to not work.

Thus Belial with words cloth'd in reason's garbCounsel'd ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth,Not peace.