A Quote by Horace

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Horace

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Avoid Must Siren Sloth Wicked

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Horace
Roman - Poet
65 BC - 8 BC

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

John Podhoretz

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

Horace

What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.

Charlie Munger

The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.

John Chancellor

We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.

R. C. Sproul, Jr.

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!

Toussaint Louverture

I try to avoid Twitter. I occasionally can't resist the siren call of email.

Diablo Cody

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

Blaise Pascal

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

Henry Taylor

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

George Orwell

I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

Kajol

The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.

Ahmed Chalabi

Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

Wendy Wasserstein

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Elizabeth Hurley

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

Horace

And I thought, there's a sloth near. There's a sloth here, it's close, it's gonna happen. And I didn't know how to process that, because my entire life had been waiting for this moment.

Kristen Bell

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