John Dryden Quotes

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.

Procrastination is still the thief of time.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.