The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
Albert J. Nock

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Erich Fromm

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
Lord Acton

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
David Antin

These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'
Lauren Graham

War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
Frank McCourt

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
George Henry Lewes

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
Maggie Gallagher

When all else fails, complicate matters.
Aaron Allston

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
Maria Callas

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.
Marcus V. Pollio

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
Heinrich Heine

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
Norman Douglas

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
Rush Limbaugh