Quotes About Sluggard

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

The contemporary sluggard won't go to places he should go (such as church), saying, "It's too dangerous out there on the highways!" Or he might say, "If I discipline my time for the purpose of godliness, I might miss important things on TV or the Internet, or become so busy I won't get enough rest!" And he plops down on the couch or rolls back over in bed.

The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample.

for it is not the sober man who is exposed either to plots or contempt, but the drunkard; not the early riser, but the sluggard.

You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.

The university campus was in the old part of town. The combination of water and stone creates a special, majestic atmosphere there. It's hard to be a sluggard under those circumstances, but I managed.

I am not usually such a sluggard, he said, as we walked quickly along the street, but yesterday evening I got a novel. I ought not to read novels. When I do, I am apt to make a single mouthful of it; and that is what I did last night. I started the book at nine and finished it at two this morning; and the result is that I am as sleepy as an owl even now.

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain,"You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again."

Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.

Like every educated Englishman, Benjamin Franklin was obsessed with idleness. In his Poor Richard's Almanack of 1741, he offered familiar advice that echoed the talk of Hakluyt, Winthrop, and Byrd: "Up sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough." There was utterly nothing new in his pitch for hard work as the way to wealth.1