James Russell Lowell Quotes

a charge of monumental inconsequentiality.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

one could drown in irrelevance.

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

It is nothing.

A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

The rankings - they don't mean crap, to be honest.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

That questionable superfluity small beer.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

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.

Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.

No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.

Repetition is the key to real learning.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

Nothing more than nothing can be said.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.

The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important; we spend our lives doing things which are not important. That's what's nice about us, we're not pompous. We never do anything very bad that's gonna change the world. We're not serious, we're butterflies. We live for a day.

A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.