Errands Quotes - Page 2

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]

I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.

Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite

One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.