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"Never lie when the truth is more profitable." »Stanislaw J. Lec
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"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable." »Trey and Matt Stone Parker
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"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish." »Aeschylus
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"Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself." »Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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"Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty." »Plato
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"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control." »Don Marquis
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"Flattery may be considered as a mode of companionship, degrading but profitable to him who flatters." »Theophrastus
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"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." »Dick Cavett
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"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated." »B. C. Forbes
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"It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies." »Woody Allen
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"When we can say "no" not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it." »Charles A. Stoddard
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"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself." »Pierre Charron
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"America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side." »Vincent Canby, The New York Times, November 11, 1984
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"No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him." »Martin Luther
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"What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in one?s duty. Where is the greatest peace? In truth and righteousness. Who is the hero? The man who subdues his senses. Who is the best beloved? The faithful wife. What is wealth? Knowledge. What is the most perfect happiness? Staying at home." »Bhartrihari
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"For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress." »John Calvin
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