| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Sloth |
| | | A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom. Bible. | 1 |
| A slothful man is a brother to him who is a great waster. | 2 |
| A slothful man never has time. Italian. | 3 |
| A slothful man is a beggar’s brother. | 4 |
| Flee, sloth, for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body. Cato. | 5 |
| Gaudy, slothful people are wasps that eat up the bee’s honey. | 6 |
| He that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Bible. | 7 |
| Sloth is the beginning of vice. Dutch. | 8 |
| Sloth is the key to poverty. German, Spanish, Portuguese. | 9 |
| Sloth is the mother of poverty. | 10 |
| Sloth is the nurse of vice and rust of action. Massinger. | 11 |
| Sloth like rust consumes faster than labor wears. | 12 |
| Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy. Franklin. | 13 |
| Sloth, that destructive siren, is ever to be avoided. Horace. | 14 |
| Sloth turneth the edge of wit. | 15 |
| Sloth wears out the body and consumes the mind. | 16 | | |
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