
“It’s an ill wind as blows nobody no good, as I always say. And All’s well as ends Better!”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“It’s an ill wind as blows nobody no good, as I always say. And All’s well as ends Better!”
“Ill doers in the end shall ill receive.”
Canto XXXVII, stanza 106 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.”
Proverbs 7.
Commentaries
The trees get wheeled away
Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)
“I trust to luck and do nothing but work, hoping that all will end well.”
3 February 1944
(1942 - 1944)
"Is it compassionate to prohibit suicide?," http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/letters/bal-ed.le.letters17m11mar17,0,7530016.storyThe Baltimore Sun (2009-03-17)
“Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational.”
Interview with Helen DeWitt, Author of The Last Samurai.
I Am Other People
“By doing nothing men learn to do ill.”
Maxim 318
Compare Ecclesiasticus 33:27 (KJV): "idleness teacheth much evil".
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“753. By doing nothing we learne to do ill.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)