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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.


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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus seg...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) There are only do and don’t; can or can’t is just an excuse.
M.F. MOONZAJER All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I chea...
CHARLES DICKENS Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
EDWARD R. MURROW War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to g...
GUY SAJER Fear and dull disposition, luke warmness and sloth, are not seldom wont to cloak themselves under th...
JOHN MILTON Geopolitical wise, it's just more of the same. People are resigned to the fact that we're going to w...
PETER BOOCKVAR China is firmly opposed to Lee Teng-hui carrying out any activities in Japan under any pretext.
ZHANG QIYUE Lesson 1: Don't trust anybody.
Lesson 2: Be confident.
Lesson 3: Nothing is ever what it s...
JACK HEATH it was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn'...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON The occupiers of Iraq have imposed their ominous presence on the Iraqi nation under pretext of provi...
AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity,...
F. SIONIL JOSE If you don't expand the freedom of the citizens, you'll find yourself in a country which quite comfo...
JOSE RODRIGUEZ The unwarranted accusations by the U.S. against China under the pretext of so-called human rights qu...
ZHANG QIYUE It is certain that Iraq's occupiers, who have imposed their evil presence in Iraq under the pretext ...
AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI Organisations find no rationale to increase the salary of the employees, but get often reasons to de...
ANUJ SOMANY Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty importe...
JAMES FENTON You can only shove shit under your bed for so long before it starts moving around and wanting to get...
LILI ST. CROW I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - ...
BORIS YELTSIN The pursuit of our dreams is not without any difficulty. Those who triumph have learn’t to overcom...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
GEORGE CARLIN Well… er -”
“Expecting a rescue is beyond hope under the circumstances!” Sam Barthoff, ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE When we lost those cheerleaders we had to change our whole routine. That really took a lot of the di...
HEATHER ROSE I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word...
JOHN NELSON DARBY Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?

Have you declared yourself enlightened...
PETER J. CARROLL We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been loo...
JON STEWART It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and...
KIM IL-SUNG The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Glutto...
JOHN CHANCELLOR There's no excuse for it. It's our home gym. We practice here every day, so there's no excuse for it...
JEFF ARNTSON A lot of times on our show, 'Shadowhunters,' we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been loo...
JON STEWART Sloth is the key to poverty.
PROVERB I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it'...
MILTON FRIEDMAN We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zea...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the ...
M. SCOTT PECK The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how ca...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how ca...
ALBERT EINSTEIN To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
VOLTAIRE Jack, you've debauched my sloth.
PATRICK O'BRIAN I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it&...
MILTON FRIEDMAN National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.
JOHN TAYLOR If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the en...
DIRK BENEDICT Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.
THOMAS S. MONSON Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true moti...
ISAAC NEWTON With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussio...
MARTIN VAN BUREN Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
BILL GRIFFITH In the evening of that day, after completing my preparations, I supped on the remaining portions of ...
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object...
ELIZABETH HURLEY Every leader should also be under a leader
SUNDAY ADELAJA The real difficulty is always in ourselves, not in our surroundings.
SRI AUROBINDO Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve...
PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
LARRY DAVID You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
HORACE Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
MASON COOLEY For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... Out of passions grow opinions; mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At the end of the day, it is all politics. Everything else is just pretext.
KAYODE FAYEMI What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportu...
J. SIDLOW BAXTER foggy hangover....fending off sloth and torpor....the battle within!!!!!
MUKESH KWATRA Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I ob...
ELIZABETH HURLEY Ignorance is no excuse when once we know that ignorance is the only possible excuse.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Freedom of expression has always been a pretext for Westerners ... to insult the beliefs of Muslims.
FARID MORTAZAVI Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes,Desirous still, still impotent to rise.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE In the morning I woke like a sloth in the fog.
LESLIE CONNOR We take all our direction from people under the age of 18.
CHUCK WOLFE There's a lot of pretext strikes, I can tell you, ... That's part of what a judge has to do, is find...
HENRY WADE Gluttony, lust, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.
VANESSA EDWARDS We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is...
CHARLES HUGHES We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is...
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES We got caught in the rain when they got their runs. But that's no excuse for our defensive play.
HOLLY BROWN Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of i...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD 'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been e...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK ...in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has for...
ARTHUR KOESTLER We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is...
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is...
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Amo...
JAMES MADISON The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
HARRISON FORD Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itsel...
ANTONIN ARTAUD We lay there, under the stars, the moonlight enveloping us like a letter, folded together to be fore...
AISHABELLA SHEIKH We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our...
LOBSANG TENZIN If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider ...
KAJOL Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
HORACE Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
ANTONIO MACHADO Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits
ANTONIO MACHADO Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
ANTONIO MACHADO Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
ANTONIO MACHADO There's no excuse, we practice here everyday at the same time of day. I don't know, that's the bigge...
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