Sluggard Quotes

Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. - Benjamin Franklin

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again. - Isaac Watts

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. - Benjamin Franklin

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. - Bible

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. - Bible

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. - Bible

The foul sluggard's comfort: `It will last my time'. - Thomas Carlyle

Plough deep while sluggards sleep. - Benjamin Franklin

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike. - Cyril Connolly

I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. - William Shakespeare