Indulged slothfulness is at the bottom of prevailing self-conceitedness. ❋ Unknown (1721)
His slothfulness is the cause of his good opinion of himself. ❋ Unknown (1721)
Of what ill consequence slothfulness is both to private and public affairs (v. 18): By much slothfulness and idleness of the hands, the neglect of business, and the love of ease and pleasure, the building decays, drops through first, and by degrees drops down. ❋ Unknown (1721)
Those that would have their knowledge increased must take pains, must not sit still in slothfulness and bare wishes but run to and fro, must make use of all the means of knowledge and improve all opportunities of getting their mistakes rectified, their doubts resolved, and their acquaintance with the things of God improved, to know more and to know better what they do know. ❋ Unknown (1721)
Wherefore we also, if we see any hearkening carelessly, and having exhorted him to attend, he do not heed us, let us be silent; for should we persevere in urging him, his slothfulness will be the more charged against him. ❋ 1225?-1274 (1842)
The word deployed to describe the nation's twin disease of tubbiness and laziness is 'slothfulness'. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"slothfulness" and gives programmers time to improve some other parts of their project, thus encouraging hubris as well. ❋ Phillip Piper (2010)
But far less scrutiny has been directed at the administration's slothfulness when it comes to concluding free-trade deals. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I think a birthday is a perfect excuse for slothfulness! ❋ Unknown (2010)
A life of booze, fags and slothfulness may be enough to earn your doctor's disapproval, but there is one last hope: a repeat prescription of mates and good conversation. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Funny how most regard this as slothfulness, but at least in my case I am working through the night. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The problem is that in practice, the agencies that are supposed to oversee them have been often paralyzed, compromised by a culture that condones slothfulness and even corruption. ❋ Unknown (2010)
With Mrs. Worth complaining bitterly about my slothfulness, I carefully toasted her some bread, crumbled it into a dish of the milk, and gave it to her, together with a pewter spoon. ❋ Bailey MacDonald (2010)
Tedium is the granddaughter of despondency, and the daughter of slothfulness. ❋ Gumbo Lily (2009)
It's also arguable that inherited wealth sometimes induces slothfulness and overindulgence. ❋ Unknown (2009)
More lies from the RNC, slothfulness from mainstream media, and a pitiful short attention span public enabled this flagrant distortion of truth to be accepted without question from far too many in the electorate. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Closely related to this issue of slothfulness is the issue of passion or enthusiasm. ❋ Chip Ingram (2009)
Its aim is to subtly, but inextricably blame the catastrophic and unprecedented damage of hurricane Katrina, unleashed on the good people of New Orleans, as not only a product of their presumed slothfulness but as a giant welfare windfall waiting to happen for all whom reside there. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In my paradigm, the dominant message of Wall*E was holding up a mirror to the appalling excess, greed, waste, and slothfulness of humans. ❋ Unknown (2008)
