Busies Quotes
- In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is… — Rafael Sabatini
- Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. — Marcus Aurelius
- Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson
- He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine… — Maximus the Confessor
- He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
- I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things. — Edgar Allan Poe