Better is a handful with quietness, than both hands full with toil and grasping for the wind.
All Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 4:6 Go To Ecclesiastes 4
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Mind. These are the words of the slothful, (Calmet) or of truth. (Haydock) (Proverbs xvii. 1.)
The indolent will not observe moderation in the application of this sentence. (Menochius)
