Useless Quotes

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

A useless life is an early death.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.