Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve
More from: William Congreve
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. -
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. -
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. -
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. -
In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
More quotes by William Congreve
- Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
- Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
- Beauty is the lover's gift.
- There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
- Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.