Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
Pope John Paul II

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Franz Kafka

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
Richard Dawkins

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Spike Milligan

I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.
Spike Milligan

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
Christopher Marlowe

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
John Gay

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
Lord Byron

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.
Christopher Columbus

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
Blaise Pascal

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Samuel Johnson

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
Abba Eban

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
R. A. Salvatore

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar N. Bradley

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
Marc Chagall

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
Ernest Holmes