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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 3320 |
| QUOTATION: | A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Allingham (1824–1889), Irish poet, diarist. Entry for March 24-28, 1864. A Diary, ch. 6, eds. H. Allingham and D. Radford (1907). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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