Algernon Sidney Quotes

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

Send not a Catt for Lard.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

We have ploughed the sea.

Unproductive effort is never a good thing.

Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.

Don't carry logs into the forest.

Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)

He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

To review ones store is to mow twice.

Regrets are stupid; they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.

We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

The nepotism there is the stuff of legend... It just seems to be a place where people get paid to sit in a building.

More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun.