What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them? Henry David Thoreau
As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies. Homer
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much. Laozi
He gathers up ashes and scatters flour. Spanish Proverb
He who has nothing to do, scatters and gathers. Ethiopian Proverb
He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot. Sicilian Proverb