A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Finley Peter Dunne

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.
Heather Donahue

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
Benjamin Whichcote

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.
Norman Granz

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Thomas Traherne

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
Dick Cavett

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.
James Daly

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.
Robert Grosseteste

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
Rudy Rucker

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.
Phil Crosby

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.
Tony Visconti

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Plato

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.
Mario Puzo

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
Thomas More

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
Edward R. Murrow

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.
Lionel Blue

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Aeschylus

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
L. Neil Smith

It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
Jackie Mason