| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Sluggard |
| | | A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time. | 1 |
| At evening the sluggard is busy. German. | 2 |
| Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise. Bible. | 3 |
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live
And by her busy ways reform thine own. Smart. | 4 |
| He who has a sluggard has a prophet. (He invents excuses such as it is going to rain. etc.) Modern Greek. | 5 |
| Pull up the stones, you sluggard, and break the devil’s head with them. | 6 |
| Sluggards are never scholars. | 7 |
| The sluggard makes his night till noon. | 8 |
| The sluggard’s convenient season never comes. | 9 |
| The sluggard’s guise: loth to go to bed and loth to rise. | 10 |
’Tis the voice of the sluggard; I hear him complain,
“You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.” Watts. | 11 |
| What better is the house for a sluggard rising early? | 12 | | |
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