#sloth

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly. ↗

— Larry David

#degradation #mostly #sloth

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren. ↗

— Horace

#must #siren #sloth #wicked #you

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

— Elizabeth Hurley

#heavenly #i #irritates #laziness #me

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#me #sloth #unjust

I know how deeply slothful I am. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#deeply #how #i #i am #know

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#kindest #performance #school #sloth #word

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. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#books #cite #covers #deadly #enlightenment

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. ↗

— Quintilian

#excuse #our #pretext #sloth #under

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. ↗

— George Saunders

#answers #bad #bet #cruel #declines

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

— Ronald Reagan

#laziness #sloth #work #humor