Futile Attempt Quotes

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

The Townsend Plan is an attempt to mint the moonlight into silver and coin the sunshine into gold.

You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.

I search but never find, hurt but never cry I work and forever try but I'm cursed, so never mind.

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it

So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried. "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round. "No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.

A foolish dog barks at a flying bird

Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.

Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

Remarrying a husband you've divorced is like having your appendix put back in.

The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.