Enemy Quote by Sophocles

Enemies gifts are no gifts and do no good.

— Sophocles

“The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it?…

— Jed Rubenfeld

When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless.

— Marcus Eremita

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.

— William Shakespeare

The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

— Abraham Lincoln

The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

— B. C. Forbes

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

— Robert Browning

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.

— Julia Ward Howe

“poverty is not a vice, that’s a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkenness is not a virtue, and that that’s even truer.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort…

— H. Rider Haggard

“...poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know that drunkenness too is not a virtue and that's even truer. But…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Learn how to treasure those people who exert effort just to make you feel important. because ignoring them is not their loss, it's yours!

— Melchor Lim

True is the saying: 'In order to make the world tranquil and happy, the nation must first be well governed!'

— Sun Yat-sen