Quote by Sydney Smith
He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty

He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

Other quotes by Sydney Smith

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. – Sydney Smith

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Beauty
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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith

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Friendship
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. – Sydney Smith

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respect
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Carpe Diem
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Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?… what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?… If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. – Epictetus

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Carpe Diem

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank. – Ben Irwin

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Carpe Diem

Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely. – Thomas P. Murphy

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Carpe Diem

If life has those moments — ecstasies of health, youth and peace… — treasure them. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Carpe Diem

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Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. – David Bailey

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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal. – William Hazlitt

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alone

The sheep-people dont think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and its the gospel truth and they dont have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People dont go and do their own investigations if its relationships or politics or anything. – Big Boi

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Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. – Rumi

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Rumi