Pointless Pursuit Quotes

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

No matter where you're going it's the wrong place.

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

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

Depend upon it, Sir, nothing will come of them!

Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

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

You can write the best column in the world on Monday, and it does you absolutely no good on Tuesday. There is no way to win. You just write until you are tired, they fire you, or you die.

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.

I know I'm probably digging for fresh fruit in the garbage, and as much as anyone, my attitude is, if stuff's sincere, it's gooey and boring and uninteresting. But it's no way to live.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.