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Tag Name "Sloth" (101)

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Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Sloth is all passions the most powerful.
Samuel Beckett
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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.
Wendy Wasserstein
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Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties the sluggard is a living insensible.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
Mason Cooley
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Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues
Benjamin Franklin
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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
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Sloths have no real natural body odor, which helps hide and protect them from potential predators. As a result, their natural smell is a projection of whatever you're feeling at the moment you encounter one.
Ann Burton
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Sloths have low metabolisms, so they have to move slowly in order to conserve energy. However, they aren't aimless or lazy and they actually move around quite a lot - just very, very slowly.
Ann Burton
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Sloths actually are like furry living ecosystems all by themselves! Algae grows on their fur and they are also home to sloth moths who call them home and drink their tears.
Ann Burton
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To be rich be diligent move on Like heav'ns great movers that enrich the earth Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone And make the spring straight bury all her birth. Rich are the diligent who can command Time--nature's stock.
William Davenant
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Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.
Lord Byron
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Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.
William Shakespeare
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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
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Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.
William Shakespeare
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My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.
Mason Cooley
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
Yann Martel
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Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.
Yann Martel
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
Ovid
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Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts
Plutarch
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Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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