Quotes of Sloth - somelinesforyou

“ Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. ”

- Bible

“ Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. ”

- Bible

“ Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the "blessing" of idleness and won for us the "curse" of labor. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. ”

- Bible

“ Sloth is the key to poverty. ”

- Unknown

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

- Benjamin Franklin

“ You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren. ”

- Horace

“ What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood. ”

- Os Guinness

“ Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness. ”

- Robertson Davies

“ Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. ”

- Anne Frank

“ Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. ”

- Mary Wilson Little

“ The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. ”

- Jules Renard

“ People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. ”

- Bob Hope

“ Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yarn confess The Pains and Penalties of Idleness. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing. ”

- Jenny Joseph

“ A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish. ”

- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

“ The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further. ”

- Sir Heneage Ogilvie

“ The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. ”

- Larry Wall

“ Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. ”

- George MacDonald

“ The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote
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