Quotes on Sloth

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

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.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

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