Folly Quote by Leonardo da Vinci Download Open image “Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.” — Leonardo da Vinci ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folly Labor Labour Men Supreme Work
Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being an animal… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“For my part, I think that to a man of spirit there is no other aim and end of his labours except the labours… — Dr Jayaswal Copy Share Image
“Nothing tends to materialise man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labour.” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Whenever he had spoilt a piece of work he always set himself below the meanest labourer who had at least brawn enough to do… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.” — Proverbs 16:22 Bible KJV Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain! — Marie of Romania Copy Share Image
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost. — William Feather Copy Share Image
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical… It reduces wisdom to impotence and… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
