Inside: Slow Sloth Quotes, Jokes & Sayings.
Originally named after one of the Seven Deadly Sins, it’s no surprise that sloths have been labeled as the world’s laziest animals for decades. In fact, when sloths were first described in the scientific literature in 1749 they were labeled as “the lowest form of existence”!
Since then, we have learned that sloths are far from being simple, lazy creatures that just sleep all day.
They have become a creature of comfort, silliness, and even turned into some of our favorite cartoon characters.
Check out these silly, inspiring, and fun sloth quotes to share.
Inspiring Sloth Quotes
1. “To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.” – Francis Bacon.
2. “All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but…Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.” – Vladimir Nabokov.
3. “Your husband is lazy if coffee doesn’t keep him awake – even when it’s hot and being spilled on him.” – Phyllis Diller.
4. “Sloth is all passions the most powerful.” – Samuel Beckett.
5. “The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.” – Harrison Ford.
6. “Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man…to find an easy way of doing it.” – Walter Chrysler.
7. “Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.” – Charles Caleb Colton.
8. “Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness…it’s only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.” – Elizabeth Hurley.
9. “Division of labor is a justification for sloth.” – Leo Tolstoy.
10. “The sloth lives his life upside down…If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.” – Will Cuppy.
11. “When I’m working, I work, work, work…when I’m not, I’m the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.” – Al Jourgensen.
12. “In twenty years’…I’ll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear.” – Dalai Lama.
13. “I created my own party…called the Sloth and Indolence Party.” – Utah Phillips.
14. “Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.” – Shakespeare.
15. “No man is so methodical as a complete idler.” – Washington Irving.
16. “If I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from the easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose myself?” – Charlotte Bronte.
17. “I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.” – Julie Schumacher.
18. “It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation…Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you…therefore pay you cash to go away.” – Rudyard Kipling, ‘Dane-Geld’.
19. “The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth.” – John Chancellor.
Sloth Quotes + Memes
20. “Awake…The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.” – Gautam Buddha.
21. “Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.” – Benjamin Franklin.
22. “As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.” – Yann Martel.
23. “And I thought, there’s a sloth near…it’s gonna happen…my entire life had been waiting for this moment.” – Kristen Bell.
24. “Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.” – Henry Rollins.
25. “The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye…tends to be impatient, craves the novel…bored by repetition.” – W. H. Auden.
26. “Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth.” – George Saunders.
27. “The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder…Did you know that every other animal’s favorite animal is the sloth?” – Ann Burton.
28. “A good work ethic is…one for responsibility…the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.” – Criss Jami, ‘Healology’.
29. “I rather would entreat thy company…Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.” – Shakespeare.
30. “Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.” – Warren Buffett.
31. “A Bradypus, or Sloth, am I
I live a life of ease…idle as I please”
– Michael Flanders.
Sid The Sloth Quotes
If you are a fan of funny sloth quotes then you can’t afford to miss out on these rib-tickling sloth quotes from ‘Ice Age’ (2002) and ‘Ice Age: The Meltdown’ (2006)!
32. “Ah, you know me, I’m too lazy to hold a grudge.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age’.
33. “Look, I opened my camp! “Campo del Sid”. It means Camp of Sid.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age 2’.
34. “Manfred : Hey. Who said you kids could torture the sloth?
Diego : Manny, don’t squash their creativity.
Sid : Hey…my bad mammal-jammals. Want to give the sloth a hand?”
– ‘Ice Age 2’.
35. “We’re gonna live…We’re gonna die!” – Sid, ‘Ice Age 2’.
36. “[explaining the meaning of fear] Jealousy, mostly…fear is natural.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age 2’.
37. “I’m a mammal that cares!” – Sid, ‘Ice Age’.
38. “All right, All right… I was trying to relax.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age’.
39. “Why?! Doesn’t anyone love me? Isn’t there anyone who cares about Sid the Sloth!” – Sid, ‘Ice Age’.
40. “Sid : You guys won’t believe what happened to me just now!
Diego : I’m gonna…say you were “sleepwalking”.
Sid : Oh, no. I was kidnapped by a tribe of mini sloths.”
– ‘Ice Age 2’.
41. “[Diego makes a huge jump]
Sid : I wish I could jump like that.”
– ‘Ice Age’.
42. “Well, tomorrow’s the day the scary vulture said we’re all gonna die.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age 2’.
43. “No seriously! I can take care of this… wha- what is this? Pine cone! Oh, my goodness! That’s my favorite!” – Sid, ‘Ice Age’.
44. “Hey. Can you guys slow down? I’m dying here.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age 2’.
45. “Sid : You are a very advanced race. Together we can look for a solution.
Female Mini Sloth : [eagerly] We have one…
Sid : That’s not very advanced.”
– ‘Ice Age 2’.
46. “Survival! Of the! Fittest! I-don’t-think-so.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age’.
47. “Yeah but with my little stick in my highly evolved brain… [accidentally pokes himself with it] Ow!… I shall create fire.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age’.
48. “Don’t let them impale me. I wanna live!” – Sid, ‘Ice Age’.
49. “Makin’ friends everywhere yuh go – just makin’ friends.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age 2’.
50. “I don’t know about you guys, but we are the weirdest herd I’ve ever seen.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age’.
51. “My feet are sweating.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age’.
52. “Manny, you’ve come a long way since we first met…but you need to let go of the past so you’ll have a future.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age 2’.
53. “Maybe we could rapidly evolve into water creatures…Call me Squid.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age 2’.
54. “So she…says, “If you’re gonna have a second mating dance, at least pick a sloth with the same color pelt…She’s gonna go praying-mantis on me.” Know what I’m saying?” – Sid, ‘Ice Age’.
55. “Come on, the ice may be thin, but it’s strong enough to hold a 10 ton mammoth and a nine ton possum.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age 2’.
56. “Well, don’t “that” put the ‘stink’ in extinction!” – Sid, ‘Ice Age 2’.
57. “This whole ice age thing is getting old. You know what I could go for? A global warming.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age’.
58. “Manny, look on the bright side; you have us!” – Sid, ‘Ice Age 2’.
59. “I just did something involuntary… and messy.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age 2’.
60. “[frantic] What? Wait, no! Wait, wait, wait.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age’.
61. “I’m putting sloths on the map.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age’.
62. “Sid : No running, James! Camp rules!
James : Make me, sloth!
Sid : Make me, “sir”! It’s all about respect.”
– ‘Ice Age 2’.
63. “This is either really good or really bad.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age 2’.
64. “Hey, thanks for waiting.” – Sid, ‘Ice Age’.
Cute Sloth Sayings + Quotes
65. “So this is what you do when it all slows down and the minutes that tick by feels a little longer…You open your eyes a little wider…Stop and notice things…Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now.” – Cecelia Ahern, ‘Thanks for the Memories’.
66. “As winter approaches…we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth.” – Sarah MacLean.
67. “Every time we go fast, we learn to slow down our obstacles” – J. Ruby.
68. “You need not be proud of me…it isn’t such a great desire on my part to serve the world and I’ll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!” – Eleanor Roosevelt.
69. “If you’re short on time, don’t speed up. Slow down.” – Robert Celner.
70. “Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness…trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray…to become the person who is doing these things.” – Eugene H. Peterson.
71. “Slow down a bit…you will not miss out on anything around you…So sit back…discover you, again.” – Christine Szymanski.
Funny Sloth Jokes
– They always want to hang out.
– They always want to hang out.
– He would only do the BEAR minimum
– I’m from the sloth side!
– A slow-off.
– AU GUYS!!!
– Nothing, it just let out a little wine!
Funny Sloth Quotes
– Slothfulness.
81. Do you know what sloths read in the morning? They read snooze papers.
82. Why a group of sloths does cross the road? Because they are yet to make it.
83. What do sloths read in the morning? Snooze-papers.
84. I thought I was streaming a video of sloths for 20 minutes yesterday. It turned out to become a picture.
85. Sloths are the most social animals.They always want to hang out.
86. What’s a sloth’s favorite snack? A slow-cone!
87. What do sloths eat and drink in the morning? Morning sloth-fee.
88. What do you call an aristocratic sloth? Slowphisticated.
89. With how long it took Shakespeare to write Othello, it should’ve been titled Slothello!
90. What do you call a sloth with a big heart? A sloft-ee.
91. I never knew the angel can fly slow. They move slothfully.
Cute Sloth Sayings
92. “All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but…Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.” – Vladimir Nabokov.
93. “Your husband is lazy if coffee doesn’t keep him awake – even when it’s hot and being spilled on him.” – Phyllis Diller.
94. “Sloth is all passions the most powerful.” – Samuel Beckett.
95. “The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.” – Harrison Ford.
96. “Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man…to find an easy way of doing it.” – Walter Chrysler.
97. “Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.” – Charles Caleb Colton.
98. “Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness…it’s only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.” – Elizabeth Hurley.
99. “Division of labor is a justification for sloth.” – Leo Tolstoy.
100. “The sloth lives his life upside down…If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.” – Will Cuppy.
101. “When I’m working, I work, work, work…when I’m not, I’m the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.” – Al Jourgensen.
102. “In twenty years’…I’ll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear.” – Dalai Lama.
103. “I created my own party…called the Sloth and Indolence Party.” – Utah Phillips.
104. “Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.” – Shakespeare.
105. “No man is so methodical as a complete idler.” – Washington Irving.
106. “If I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from the easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose myself?” – Charlotte Bronte.
107. “I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.” – Julie Schumacher.
108. “It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation…Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you…therefore pay you cash to go away.” – Rudyard Kipling, ‘Dane-Geld’.
109. “The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth.” – John Chancellor.
110. “Awake…The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.” – Gautam Buddha.
111. “Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.” – Benjamin Franklin.
112. “As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.” – Yann Martel.
113. “And I thought, there’s a sloth near…it’s gonna happen…my entire life had been waiting for this moment.” – Kristen Bell.
Inspiring Sloth Quotes
114. “Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.” – Henry Rollins.
115. “The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye…tends to be impatient, craves the novel…bored by repetition.” – W. H. Auden.
116. “Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth.” – George Saunders.
117. “The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder…Did you know that every other animal’s favorite animal is the sloth?” – Ann Burton.
118. “A good work ethic is…one for responsibility…the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.” – Criss Jami, ‘Healology’.
121. “So this is what you do when it all slows down and the minutes that tick by feels a little longer…You open your eyes a little wider…Stop and notice things…Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now.” – Cecelia Ahern, ‘Thanks for the Memories’.
122. “As winter approaches…we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth.” – Sarah MacLean.
123. “Every time we go fast, we learn to slow down our obstacles” – J. Ruby.
124. “You need not be proud of me…it isn’t such a great desire on my part to serve the world and I’ll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!” – Eleanor Roosevelt.
125. “If you’re short on time, don’t speed up. Slow down.” – Robert Celner.
126. “Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness…trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray…to become the person who is doing these things.” – Eugene H. Peterson.
127. “Slow down a bit…you will not miss out on anything around you…So sit back…discover you, again.” – Christine Szymanski.
128. “I created my own party…called the Sloth and Indolence Party.” – Utah Phillips.
129. “Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.” – Shakespeare.
130. “No man is so methodical as a complete idler.” – Washington Irving.
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