Unprofitable Quotes

56 quotes by 48 authors

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible. — A. Philip Randolph
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… — William Cowper
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. — Walter Lippmann
Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated. — John Herschel
The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation. — G. H. Hardy
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must… — Alexey Brodovitch
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… — Samuel Johnson
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing… — Lahiri Mahasaya
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit… — Anne Baxter
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. — Polybius
The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart. — William Wordsworth
We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company. — Jeff Bezos
The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales. — Claude C. Hopkins
Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who… — Oswald Spengler
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter… — William Davenant
With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing. — Toshihiko Fukui
We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do. — Luke the Evangelist

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