Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning. (Samuel Beckett)

Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning.

Samuel Beckett

Related topics

courage learning spend squandering turning years

Related quotes

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude. View quote
William Wordsworth
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. View quote
Horace
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. View quote
Heinrich Heine
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. View quote
Uma Thurman
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. View quote
Robertson Davies