Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Charlie Munger

What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

William Shakespeare

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

Conor Cruise O'Brien

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

Edward Abbey

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.

William Shakespeare

Hereditary sloth instructs me.

John Ortberg

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.

Livy

Prosperity engenders sloth.

Henry David Thoreau

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

Henry David Thoreau

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Henry David Thoreau

In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.

Eugene H. Peterson

Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.

Christopher Isherwood

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

Francis Bacon

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

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

Horace

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

Horace

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Leo Tolstoy

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!

Phyllis Diller

Once Fang took pep pills and they worked - the only time he ever ran to bed.

John Lyly

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

Michael Flanders

A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

James Lee Burke

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.

Warren Buffett

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

Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

Warren Buffett

Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

Wendy Wasserstein

Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

Joseph Epstein

I know how deeply slothful I am.

Larry David

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.