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.


Volume I, ch. 9. - Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)

Sydney Smith Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.