“Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.”
Bishop stresses education during Catholic Schools Week Mass https://www.aberdeennews.com/story/lifestyle/faith/2018/02/01/bishop-stresses-education-during-catholic-schools-week-mass/116585660/ (February 1, 2018)
“Men are like steel — when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”
Though often attributed to Norris, this seems to have appeared as an anonymous proverb at least as early as 1961, in an edition of The Physical Educator
Misattributed
“It isn't worth it. No money is worth this… [walks out].”
The Findus Foods "Frozen Peas" Session Out-Takes
“Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.”
An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Ch. 13 : The Sunny Side
“[H]e is of the intelligentsia (which means he has been educated beyond his intelligence).”
Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 6, p. 105
“if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.”
Source: The Zahir
“Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing.”
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Context: Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), p. 136, of President Theodore Roosevelt
