Sloth Quotes - Page 2

• Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Laziness, Virtue, Crime

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.173

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• I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Fighting, Cities

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• Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Drinking, Drunk, Lazy

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• Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Running, Trying, Praying

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• I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Weed, Heart

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• Prosperity engenders sloth.

  Livy

  Prosperity

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• Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Night, Laziness, Poverty

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.6

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

  Harrison Ford

  School, Performances

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• Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

  Albert Einstein

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• I envy because of the heart.
  I glutton because of the heart.
  I covet because of the heart.
  I am prideful because of the heart.
  I sloth because of the heart.
  I rage because of the heart.
  Because of the heart,
  I lust for everything about you.

  Tite Kubo

  Heart, Envy, Lust

  "Bleach". Manga series by Tite Kubo, August 20, 2001–August 22, 2016.

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• There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Parent, Sin, Tempted

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• Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the least sexy of the seven deadly sins. Thomas Aquinas winnowed it down for me: acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh prevails completely over the spirit. You don’t just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don’t care, and you don’t care that you don’t care.

  Mishka

  Christian, Sexy, Sadness

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• My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.

  Yann Martel

  Self, Three, Analysis

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.14, Canongate Books

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• Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

  John Ortberg

  Pilots, Needs, Done

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The lazy are always wanting to do something.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Lazy, Laziness

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

  Horace

  Wicked, Laziness, Literature

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• An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Persons

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.158, Xist Publishing

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• That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

  Horace

  Sirens, Laziness, Avoided

  "Satires". II. 3. 14,

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• Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Mind, Laziness, Irritated

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.

  Warren Buffett

  Style, Boards, Banking

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• See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Dream, Rest In Peace

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Pride, Lust, Three

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels, 1955-1962”, Library of America

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• The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

  Dave Mustaine

  Fun, Book, Pride

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• Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Laziness, Easy, Difficult

  Benjamin Franklin (2011). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Including Poor Richard's Almanac, and Familiar Letters”, p.224, Cosimo, Inc.

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• People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

  Bob Hope

  Love, Kissing, Lazy People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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