Quotes About Sluggards

#1. Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

Charles Spurgeon

#3. By nature we do not like the anxiety which spiritual concern causes us, and we try, like sluggards, to sleep again.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. The evil that is in Man comes of sluggish minds ... for sluggards cannot think, and will not ... Send upon us thy flames that we may be burnt of dead thoughts, even as we burn dead grass ... make us see.

Richard Llewellyn

#5. Then plough deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience.

Grace King

#7. To live a remote, retired, secluded life is the antipodes of spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it. The test of our spirituality comes when we come up against injustice and meanness and ingratitude and turmoil, all of which have the tendency to make us spiritual sluggards.

Oswald Chambers

#8. But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Television is intensely personal.

Jessica Savitch

#10. When I was a young kid, almost every other show on television was a Western. And some of them were part of my childhood, I loved them. Like, Rifle Man, I absolutely adored. So, I think everything comes in a cycle.

Tony Todd

#11. As an actress, you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood.

Anna Kendrick

#12. If girls were going after me, I would not only admit it, but I would probably exaggerate about the swarming masses. I can flirt and have fun, but at the end of the day, I'm not Tom Cruise. Girls are not falling all over me.

Joshua Jackson

#13. One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

Lee Iacocca

#14. You should pass us by and forgive us our happiness, said the prince in a low voice.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. I can't imagine writing something that didn't address Jewish themes and questions. It's such a big part of my life, a lot of the way in which I experience the world.

Molly Antopol

#16. Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.

Christina Rossetti

#17. Hope is the anchor for the heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.

Ashton Kutcher

#19. The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.

P. J. O'Rourke

#20. I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.

Kate Winslet

#21. When you have mastered this technique, try to chip the ball to a partner 20 yards away. Roll

Andrew Latham