The test is pointless. It will kill people for no reason
The tests went on and Sakhorov became a dissident.
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.
As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.
If you really think about it, hitting the snooze button in the morning doesn't even make sense. It's like saying, 'I hate getting up in the morning-so I do it over... and over... and over again.'
It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.
... the first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter confusion and hopelessness, east of the sun and west of the moon.
The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.
Why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?
There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.
There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]
That which makes much noise and does nothing useful.
Living in memories is an empty gesture.
We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
My horse's jockey was hitting the horse. The horse turns around and says "Why are you hitting me, there is nobody behind us!"
If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.
Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.
What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
