"Slothfulness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... marvelled at his slothfulness as time passed and he changed not. He gave up the friendship of his nobles, and went not hunting or hawking; and found no pleasure but in the company of his wife, whom ...
— King Arthur's Knights - The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls • Henry Gilbert
... hopelessness had numbed his brain, and he could scarcely summon sufficient energy to wonder what underlying impulse was driving him onward. Stoner was one of those unfortunate individuals who seem to have tried everything; a natural slothfulness and improvidence had always intervened to blight any chance of even moderate success, and now he was at the end of his tether, and there was nothing more to try. Desperation had not awakened in him any dormant reserve of energy; on the contrary, ...
— The Chronicles of Clovis • Saki
... Another day looks smiling on the world. It holds new laurels for thy soul to win: Mar not its grace by slothfulness or sin, Nor sad, ...
— Maurine and Other Poems • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... lives cannot repay us—their death could not undo— The shame that they have laid upon our race: But the slothfulness that wasted and the arrogance that slew, Shall we leave it unabated in ...
— The Years Between • Rudyard Kipling
... done by the females—the men keep up their dignity by lounging about all day, or lolling in a hammock, all wearied with their slothfulness, and looking discontented and unhappy. One brother told me he was a carpenter, the other a shoemaker, but that there was nothing to do in Juigalpa. I suggested that they should go to Libertad, where ...
— The Naturalist in Nicaragua • Thomas Belt |
