“3061. Idleness makes the Wit rust.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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Thomas Fuller (writer)420
British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734Related quotes
“Rust rust rust
in the engines of love and time”
Leonard Cohen book Flowers for Hitler
"Front Lawn", Flowers for Hitler (1964)
“It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru
#13780, Part 14
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson book Ulysses
Source: Ulysses (1842), l. 22-32
Context: How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
As tho' to breath were life. Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Irshadul Qulub; Page 78
Shi'ite Hadith
“Time's corrosive dewdrop eats
The giant warrior to a crust
Of earth in earth and rust in rust.”
Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897) English poet and critic
"A Danish Barrow".
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita
Variant: I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust
Source: Lolita
