| 1. | I see that most through sloth had rather serve. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | But thee or fear deters, or sloth detain. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | Let not sloth dim your honours, new-begot. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | What pity sloth should seize a soul so brave. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 6. | Nor fear withholds, nor shameful sloth detain. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 7. | Nor sloth hath seized me, but thy word restrain. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 8. | "What sloth has seized us, when the fields aroun. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 9. | I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |