“ He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconceivable, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
- 3.4K
“ O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. ”
- James Fenimore Cooper- Copy
- 358
“ Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — he hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable. ”
- Dorothy Nevill- Copy
- 1K
“ When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 907
“ Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
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