Profiteth Nothing Quotes

#1. No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. What Profiteth It A Kingdom If The Oxen Be Deflated?' - Riddles II, v3

Terry Pratchett

#3. DO you know how people who have nothing delude themselves? You believe that there are things like truth and pity. There aren't such things. Do you still not know? Love or righteousness ... strong people are the ones who can't protect those things.

Kim Do-hoon

#4. said. "Life gets hard when a woman hits her mid to late 30s. I told you it's the Uglying Up years. The wrinkles come and the arm fat. The hangy-down thing on most necks.

Susan Reinhardt

#5. If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that
I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed.
To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them

Jack Welch

#6. Many things there are to know which profiteth little or nothing to the soul.

Thomas A Kempis

#7. I have no connections here; only gusty collisions,
rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.
...
I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn,
a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement.
People want to push the buttons and see me glow.

Marge Piercy

#8. I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?

Simon Raven

#9. It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

Seneca The Younger

#10. Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

Seneca The Younger

#11. The brightening he detected in the room around him might just be the whites of dozens of eyes as they widened [upon him]

Julie Anne Long

#12. There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?

Thomas A Kempis

#13. No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.

Jackie DeShannon

#14. We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!

Charles Darwin