Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

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

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

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

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

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

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

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

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

The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.

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

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

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

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

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.

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

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

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

Pre-competition rituals include nap time, because when competition rolls around, I'm a sloth. I also FaceTime my dogs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.

Everybody knows how much time Fang spends in bed. A local store that gives a 30 days' trial on mattresses gives Fang only 15 days.

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

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

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!

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

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.

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

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

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

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

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.

Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.

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.

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.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

A sloth once whispered in my ear and told me that when he is clinging to branches he closes his eyes and imagines that he's still a baby holding on to his mama.

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.

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