Folly Quote by Martial Download Open image “It is folly to waste labour about trifles.” — Martial ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folly Labour Trifles Waste
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up… — Carl Maria von Weber Copy Share Image
One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously. — Nicolas Bentley 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
“Sometimes, being lazy is much favourable than labouring without a purpose.” — Vishal Ostwal Copy Share Image
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 once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers. — William Morris Copy Share Image
A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its… — William Booth Copy Share Image
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. — Martial Copy Share Image
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure — Martial Copy Share Image
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other… — Martial Copy Share Image
“You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch,but she won't say no.” — Martial Copy Share Image
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit. — Martial Copy Share Image
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door… — Martial 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
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
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
