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.

At evening the sluggard is busy.German.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise.Bible.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live
And by her busy ways reform thine own.Smart.

He who has a sluggard has a prophet. (He invents excuses such as it is going to rain. etc.)Modern Greek.

Pull up the stones, you sluggard, and break the devil’s head with them.

Sluggards are never scholars.

The sluggard makes his night till noon.

The sluggard’s convenient season never comes.

The sluggard’s guise: loth to go to bed and loth to rise.

’Tis the voice of the sluggard; I hear him complain,
“You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.”Watts.

What better is the house for a sluggard rising early?