Sloth Quotes

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

Sloth is the key to poverty.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others.

Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

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

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

He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.

And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.

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.

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.

Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America.

But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul's husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul's range of delight.

I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill.