Sloth Like Quotes

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

Benjamin Franklin

#2. I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.

Gregory Maguire

#3. My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

Gloria Estefan

#4. Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them.

Gregory David Roberts

#5. Time becomes very weird. Sometimes it seems as if the hours are rushing by in a blur, the moment of performance hurtling toward me. Other times the clock seems to poke along like a sloth with chronic fatigue syndrome.

Bruce Coville

#6. Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.

Gilbert Highet

#7. You couldn't chaperone a fucking sloth. And that requires remedial skills like sitting and watching.

Krista Ritchie

#8. Why couldn't he look like Sloth from The Goonies or something?

Suzanne Wright

#9. Given that you're meeting a sloth, that feeling is generally joy, excitement, warmth, and love. What do those feelings smell like, you ask? Like laundry, watermelon rind, the top of a baby's head, boiling water, and fresh cut grass all mixed together.

Ann Burton

#10. It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

Simone Weil

#11. As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

Edward Abbey

#12. 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.

Os Guinness

#13. 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

#14. I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

Andrew Bird

#15. 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

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

Phyllis Diller

#17. 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

#18. A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things - maybe he's just trying to be like his daddy.

Gracie Allen

#19. That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.

Chuck Klosterman

#20. Time is a fickle whore. Whenever you want it to pass slowly, it speeds up, and whenever you're full of nervous impatience, it crawls like a sloth on sedatives.

Leisa Rayven

#21. In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.

Dalai Lama

#22. In the morning I woke like a sloth in the fog.

Leslie Connor

#23. Wrath and the like do no exist inside me. There is no wrath, or lust, or sloth, or greed, or gluttony, or envy, such emotions have fled from my father. My name is Pride

Hiromu Arakawa

#24. By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.

John Adams

#25. You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.

Rumi