Futile Quotes

To bicker over what could have been is silly.

The idea of governing provinces and colonies by force is visionary and chimerical. The experiment has often been tried, and it has never succeeded. It ends infallibly in the ruin of one country or the other.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

You can't fix stupid. You can't fix a neutered dog you can't fix a garage door and hey, you can't fix stupid

Don't cry over spilt milk.

I think the debate around nepotism is futile because I am an outsider and I know that there is no compensation of talent.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.

It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

It wasn't going to be our day on the night.

Count on me to shine where it doesn't count.

You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks.

It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

I do not believe in an atonement which is admirably wide, but fatally ineffectual.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

True wars are never won.

Nothing is more useless than complaining over errors that can no longer be rectified, nothing more vain than regret.

I regard this type of boycott as ill-concieved, ill-considered, and futile…. I regard it as unjust and cruel to confound the innocent with the guilty.

To shoot at crows is powder flung away.

It’s over, and can’t be helped, and that’s one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, ven they cut the wrong man’s head off.

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.