Aldo Leopold Quotes

Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

It started as a hobby when I was a kid, and I'm finishing as a hobby.

Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.

I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal.

Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.

Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

Send not a Catt for Lard.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

I'm afraid it's not much use to you, Mr. Rumblebuffin.' Not at all. Not at all.' said the giant politely. 'Never met a nicer hankerchee.

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun

A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

It is useless attacking the insensible.

But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.