Quotes About Profitless

But can one obtain a divorce here?" "Oh, no," said they. "We trafficked in them for a while, but we found that all persons who obtained divorces through our industry promptly thanked Heaven they were free at last. In the face of such ingratitude we gave over that profitless trade

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?

The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?

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

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

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