As a confirmed melancholic,
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
Sloth
Moderation is the feebleness
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No man deserves to
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
See how the world
See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv’d, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become A base adult’ress, whose false births do fill The earth with monsters, monsters that do roam And rage about, and make a trade to kill: Now glutt’ny paunches, and avarice a pawn; Pale … Read more
To spend too much
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. Francis Bacon
To spend too much
To spend too much time in studies is sloth. Francis Bacon
Were cricket and football
Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder. F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
My favorite piece of
My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab … Read more
My absolute favourite piece
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees. Douglas Adams
The war has jerked
The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary. Dorothy L. Sayers