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I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us. — Al Jourgensen

Cynicism is only intellectual sloth. — Henry Rollins

Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky. — Max De Pree

Jack, you've debauched my sloth. — Patrick O'Brian

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting. — Alain De Botton

Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity. — Dean Koontz

Why couldn't he look like Sloth from The Goonies or something? — Suzanne Wright

Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth. — Ken Schoolland

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

Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense. — Marcus Aurelius

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

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise. — Amos Bronson Alcott

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

Lust, envy, pride, greed, gluttony, sloth, and wrath, — Chris Colfer

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same. — Louise Penny

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices! — Toussaint Louverture

The last shall not become the first if the last is lagging behind. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly. — Larry David

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

Your husband is lazy if coffee doesn't keep him awake - even when it's hot and being spilled on him. — Phyllis Diller

If you don't sleep you get run down. Sloths never get a flu, cos its good innit thats when your body's replemishing — Karl Pilkington

When he proposed he said, "We'll make such beautiful music together," but in this duet, his part seems to be all rests. — Phyllis Diller

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

The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt - — Dave Eggers

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

Hard grind got us the glory, the saying goes-- but sloth will slide us back into the sea. — Jessie Burton

I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed." — Phyllis Diller

There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth. — Tim Ferriss

It's my job to kick your ass and tell you not to fall into the sink-hole of sloth and apathy — Nicole Williams

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren. — Horace

Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood. — Ann Burton

The nights are clear but suffused with sloth and sullen expectation. — Arundhati Roy

Sloth is the natural result of unrewarded hard work among the poor, reason enough for them to be prickly. — Lao She

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

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust. — Mason Cooley

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. — Quintilian

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

The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline. — Kevin Thoman

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man. — James Boswell

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

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

Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth. — Eugene H. Peterson

You are not an agnostic ... You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass. — Conor Cruise O'Brien

You couldn't chaperone a fucking sloth. And that requires remedial skills like sitting and watching. — Krista Ritchie

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

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness. — Plato

I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth. — Julie Schumacher

My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation. — Mason Cooley

Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth. — Maureen Lipman

Pancakes taste best consumed in periods of sloth on protracted weekend mornings. — Ken Albala

Sloth is all passions the most powerful. — Samuel Beckett

Division of labor is a justification for sloth. — Leo Tolstoy

In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind. — Henry David Thoreau

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright — Benjamin Franklin

Everybody knows how lazy he is. One day the neighbors saw Fang mow the lawn and I got three Get Well cards. — Phyllis Diller

Jack, you have debauched my sloth. — Patrick O'Brian

Foggy hangover ... fending off sloth and torpor ... the battle within!!!!! — Mukesh Kwatra

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. — Mignon McLaughlin

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

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise. — P. J. O'Rourke

But since Sloth I've been so monogamous I make the demonstration banana that AIDS educators use to show how to put on a condom, look slutty. — Lauren Beukes

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable. — Henry David Thoreau

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing. — Washington Irving

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business. — Samuel Johnson

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them. — Benjamin Franklin

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

As winter approaches - bringing cold weather and family drama - we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth. — Sarah MacLean

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. — Peter Kreeft

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed. — Reid Hoffman

Don't get too close buddy ' I warn Sloth. Unofficially there's a code of conduct but animals are still animals. And animals can be assholes too. — Lauren Beukes

All the beasts from sloth to pigmy shrew, arrayed silently in ordered cavalcade as if waiting admission to the Ark. — M T Anderson

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him. — Theophrastus

Without will-power, you become a victim to the evils of procrastination, laziness and sloth. — Robin S. Sharma

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues — Benjamin Franklin

Trust in God was a great excuse for sloth and lack of planning. — Nancy Kress

You know, sloth is a sin," he says softly.
"I prefer to think of it as an adorable animal. — Ella James

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer. — Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Your husband is lazy if the directions on his medicine say, "A teaspoon before going to bed," and in one day he uses seven bottles. — Phyllis Diller

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues. — Charles Caleb Colton

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! — Leo Tolstoy

To spend too much time in studies is sloth. — Francis Bacon

I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all. — Kajol

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth. — Harrison Ford

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself. — A. H. Weiler

It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker. — Guy Maddin

Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame. — Dante Alighieri

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. — William Shakespeare

seven sins are wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. — Carolyn Arnold

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around. — Robert Breault

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

Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time. — Ann Burton

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance? — Ronald Reagan

THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS: LUST - BLUE GLUTTONY - ORANGE GREED - YELLOW SLOTH - BLACK WRATH - RED ENVY - GREEN PRIDE - PURPLE — Abi Ketner

That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths. — Chuck Klosterman

Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time. — Martin Amis

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness. — George Stillman Hillard

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both. — Benjamin Franklin