FUTILITY

Related Subjects: Idleness, Waste

1. It's but little good you'll do, a-watering the last year's crop.—GEORGE ELIOT, Adam Bede
   

2. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
   The best as the worst are futile here.—VICTOR HUGO, Early Love Revisited
   

3. Great cry and little wool, as the Devil said when he sheared the hogs.—Proverb
   

4. An emmet may work its heart out, but can never make honey.—Proverb
   

5. Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since
   Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
   

6. He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.—SYDNEY SMITH, Lady Holland's Memoir
   

7. But what am I?
   An infant crying in the night:
   An infant crying for the light,
   And with no language but a cry.—TENNYSON, In Memoriam
   

8. Thy leaf has perished in the green
   And, while we breathe beneath the sun,
   The world which credits what is done
   Is cold to all that might have been.—TENNYSON, In Memoriam