A Quote by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The sluggard is a living insensible.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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Insensible Living

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Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Swiss - Writer
December 8, 1728 - October 7, 1795

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

Benjamin Disraeli

An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

David Mitchell

Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

Richard Baxter

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

James Martineau

Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.

Samuel Johnson

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

Elizabeth Smart

Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

Isaac Watts

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

Isaac Watts

The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is useless attacking the insensible.

Aesop

We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.

Franklin P. Adams

Blessed is the mind which, during prayer, is insensible to all things.

Nilus of Sinai

Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.

Thomas Jefferson

The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample.