Top Futile Quotes
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
Pope John Paul II
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.
Lee Loevinger
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
Hilaire Belloc
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
Rosalia de Castro
Lee Loevinger 
William Lyon Mackenzie King 
Arianna Huffington 
Hilaire Belloc 
Terrence Howard 
Anne Sullivan Macy 
Richard J. Codey All Futile Quotes
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
Pope John Paul II 
59% of people like this quote
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
58% of people like this quote
Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.
Lee Loevinger
57% of people like this quote
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
Hilaire Belloc
56% of people like this quote
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
Rosalia de Castro
56% of people like this quote
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Abu Bakr
55% of people like this quote
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
Maya Lin
55% of people like this quote
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
54% of people like this quote
Popular Futile Authors
Blaise PascalAlbert CamusEric HofferAbu BakrMaya LinJose MartiAlan WattsPope John Paul IITodd GitlinWilliam Lyon Mackenzie KingTerrence HowardStanley CrouchHilaire Belloc
Tony BlairArianna HuffingtonJohn Perry BarlowAnne Sullivan MacyEdgar Rice BurroghsCarl AndreRichard J. CodeyAnthony MinghellaLetty Cottin PogrebinCharles Erwin WilsonRosalia de CastroLee LoevingerHartley William Shawcross
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