Unavailing Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your… — P T Barnum
To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless. — Herophilos
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to… — Logan Pearsall Smith
Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts… — Thomas A. Edison
The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians,… — Edward Everett
Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls… — W. E. B. Du Bois
When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power… — John Dryden
The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching… — Edgar Wilson Nye
Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can… — James Anthony Froude
But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of… — Emily Bronte
We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much… — Charles Dickens
It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many… — Charles Dickens
[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game… — O. Henry

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