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“It is folly to waste labour about trifles.”

Waste Folly Labour Trifles

Author:Martial

“Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?”

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd not.”

Done Moments Running Lost Sin Virtue Talent Thousand Ten Waste Deeds Folly Cherish

Book:Matins and vespers: with hymns and occasional devotional pieces

Source: Matins and vespers: with hymns and occasional devotional pieces

“A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”

Ifs Teach Fool Waste Benefits Capable Folly Annoying Protected Pigs Attempting Animosity

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly.”

Knows Christian Religious Pride Waste Charity Folly Reasonableness

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4

“What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.”

“A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.”

Ifs Space Sadness Waste Misery Folly Scope Waste Of Space

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not accept the universe in a very whole-hearted manner. Looking up at the midnight stars, he exclaimed: "A sad spectacle! If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be not inhabited, what a waste of space!"”

Ifs Said Whole Science Universe Stars Space Accepting Sadness Waste Misery Accepted Folly Midnight Scope Hearted Waste Of Space

Book:Accepting the universe

Source: Accepting the universe

“Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase black representation in the Republican Party by appeals based on race. Whatever the name- 'African American Outreach' or 'Black Republicans for Bush'- any effort to attract blacks or any other ethnic group to the Republican party, based on explicit or implicit appeals to race or ethnic identity, are not only a waste of time and resources, but are also misguided and potentially quite damaging to the nation.”