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.
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Volume I, ch. 9.Sydney Smith
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.William Cowper
Empty pockets never held anyone back...it's only empty heads and empty hearts that do it.
Norman Vincent Peale
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Eric Hoffer
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Originality is going back to the place where you were what you were—and finding an empty chair. Would you gladly sit on it? No, thank you. It is empty for a reason. That’s where my ass was. Not where my head is now.
Giannina Braschi
Smith, Sydney
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