Quotes by Sloth That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths. Chuck Klosterman fruit apples sloth You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass. Conor Cruise O'Brien agnostic lazy sloth No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity. Dean Koontz degrees sloth opportunity The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary. Dorothy L. Sayers sloth war two 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 sin sloth parent 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. Douglas Adams sloth tree fall As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth. Edward Abbey sloth suffering action I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth. Edward Abbey heroic enterprise sloth I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all? Elizabeth Bishop forgive-me sloth believe You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily! Eleanor Roosevelt marriage sloth fall 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 laziness sloth mind 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 sloth running trying Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth. Eugene H. Peterson pastor sin sloth Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder. F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead misery sloth football See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become A base adult'ress, whose false births do fill The earth with monsters, monsters that do roam And rage about, and make a trade to kill: Now glutt'ny paunches, and avarice a pawn; Pale envy pines, pride swells, and sloth begins to yawn. Francis Quarles envy sloth pride To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. Francis Bacon laziness sloth use To spend too much time in studies is sloth. Francis Bacon too-much sloth study Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld sloth ambition soul 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. Francois de La Rochefoucauld sloth strength men Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean. Gary Taubes sloth exercise animal «1234567»
