William Hazlitt Quotes

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

'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.

I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

I see Obama as Sisyphus in the first four years. And nobody would speak about the size of the rock, or the elevation of the hill. All you hear people talk about is what he didn't do.

The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

Every now and then you dig a dry hole.

Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!

It's a horrible economy but I'm trying to do my part. I just bought a new shower curtain it has all the presidents on it. Do you know how hard it is to masturbate with all the presidents staring at you? And when the water hits them it looks like they're crying.

That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.

I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.

You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

Charge hell with a bucket of water.

My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.