Useless Quotes

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Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not… — George Eliot
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. — Oscar Wilde
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified… — Edith Wharton
First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless. — Lewis Carroll
To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless. — Jean Giraudoux
Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never… — Daniel Defoe
Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling… — Thomas B. Macaulay
But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance;… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When you canâ€™t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Grammar Checker â€“ A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who donâ€™t. — Richard Turner
I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front… — Jonathan Swift
We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall. — Annie Dillard
There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own. — C. E. M. Joad
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as… — Samuel Johnson
I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you… — Edmund Hillary
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our… — Mary Wortley Montagu
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family.… — Anne Stevenson
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art. — Eugene Ionesco
What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is… — John Stuart Mill

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