No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. Votes: 7
Charles DickensJust because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Votes: 6
Thomas A. EdisonThere is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Votes: 6
Peter DruckerIt's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. Votes: 6
Shirley MacLaineCelebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it. Votes: 4
Minnie DriverYou have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. Votes: 4
Charles de GaulleIn preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. Votes: 4
Dwight D. EisenhowerKnowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference. Votes: 3
David DeidaIt is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. Votes: 2
Giacomo CasanovaOpenness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression. Votes: 0
Daniele BolelliThe merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. Votes: 0
Alfred North WhiteheadTheoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do. Votes: 0
Jennifer Tour ChayesLearning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous! Votes: 0
SukarnoIt is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. Votes: 0
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI' tired of old people being labeled as worthless,useless,toothless and sexless Votes: 0
Claude PepperTalking about creativity is useless if you don't do anything magical with yours. Votes: 0
Ernie J ZelinskiFinance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless Votes: 0
Mark CarneyDon't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want Votes: 0
Claude C. HopkinsI'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story. Votes: 0
Isabel AllendeWith useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain! Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWhen men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliParenting the outside of the child is as useless as polishing a rotten apple. Votes: 0
Benjamin LotterWords are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. Votes: 0
Samuel ButlerA computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows Votes: 0
Linus TorvaldsA leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiEducation with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. Votes: 0
Alfred North Whitehead...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyIt would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting. Votes: 0
Dave BarryNot only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness. Votes: 0
James C. MalinHigh descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed. Votes: 0
HoraceBeing human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities. Votes: 0
Sakyong MiphamSensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.] Votes: 0
Jean de La FontainePassion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacMolecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless. Votes: 0
Alton BrownLearning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one. Votes: 0
Jean-Baptiste de La SalleForeign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them. Votes: 0
Wang JianlinIf you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldA useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.] Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAnd don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless. Votes: 0
Charles BukowskiThey teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all. Votes: 0
Jim HinckleyNewman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down. Votes: 0
Paul NewmanKnowing what to do is useless without the emotional strength to do what you know. Votes: 0
Keith RaniereI didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything. Votes: 0
Anthony HorowitzSanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place. Votes: 0
Tite KuboA car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinAny alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerI've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking. Votes: 0
Jim MorrisonThe unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteYour sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless. Votes: 0
SivanandaAll professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAny powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it. Votes: 0
Richard BachI have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless. Votes: 0
Erlend LoeThe most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character. Votes: 0
Louis-Philippe I of FrancePreparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless. Votes: 0
Dwight D. EisenhowerTexans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best." Votes: 0
Edward SmithI'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe. Votes: 0
Katherine BooGratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. Votes: 0
Esther WilliamsThere was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own. Votes: 0
C. E. M. JoadAny woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth. Votes: 0
Anna Howard ShawA smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiIt is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog. Votes: 0
George EliotYour brokenness is not useless. God can always use your pain to rebuild a stronger you. Votes: 0
Trent SheltonGolf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens. Votes: 0
Bob HopeI feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget. Votes: 0
Ned VizziniMost inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available. Votes: 0
Tim FerrissI have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillWhen we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfGiving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man. Votes: 0
Barbara MertzYou will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties. Votes: 0
Cesare PaveseAnything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry. Votes: 0
Martin LutherI'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things! Votes: 0
Romola GaraiThe art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteThe man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn't deserve to die like that. Votes: 0
Nora RobertsA life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoHe is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. Votes: 0
Mark TwainWe get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend. Votes: 0
George EliotGive to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin. Votes: 0
Victor HugoEvery man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim. Votes: 0
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron RothschildRegrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good. Votes: 0
Eileen WilksI cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it. Votes: 0
Nikki CoxIn academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with. Votes: 0
Michael IgnatieffEvery day you spend becoming an expert in a field, you become more useless in that field. Votes: 0
Naveen JainLook don't sit there behind the computer like a useless vegetable and tell me how to train Votes: 0
Viktoria KomovaThe only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. Votes: 0
Nicolas ChamfortOld age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. Votes: 0
Joseph JoubertIn painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole. Votes: 0
Ken DanbyMost work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst. Votes: 0
Paul Krugmantalk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always. Votes: 0
Sarah DessenI've always believed that a beautiful shoe is useless unless it feels as wonderful as it looks. Votes: 0
Stuart WeitzmanThe husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief. Votes: 0
Beth OrtonYet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life. Votes: 0
James G. FrazerLike society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing. Votes: 0
Peter BeardAn idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. Votes: 0
William CowperIt is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Votes: 0
Jonathan SwiftThe essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try Votes: 0
Mary StewartFollow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself. Votes: 0
Nikki GiovanniI am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her. Votes: 0
Virginia C. AndrewsThe idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless. Votes: 0
Win ButlerMan wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. Votes: 0
Albert CamusWithout the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonAll the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data. Votes: 0
Amber NaslundWar is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144) Votes: 0
Sebastian JungerA man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. Votes: 0
Walter LippmannIf the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless. Votes: 0
Crystal EastmanMemory isn't the facts, it's just a record you keep to yourself. With the facts, memory is useless. Votes: 0
Guy PearceIt is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery. Votes: 0
Margaret DelandI see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new Votes: 0
Jules VerneStar in the sky is useless to the world,Star on the stage makes the difference to the world. Votes: 0
Amit KalantriWe waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long. Votes: 0
Ella Wheeler WilcoxGolf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man. Votes: 0
Westbrook PeglerThe minute I start being afraid of what people might say is the minute I become useless to God. Votes: 0
Steven FurtickSearching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie. Votes: 0
CherNo, what I am doing is kind by telling people who are useless 'Do something that you're good at'. Votes: 0
Simon CowellAnyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless. Votes: 0
Marilyn MansonYou can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinWhether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths. Votes: 0
Denis DiderotThere's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you. Votes: 0
Benjamin CarsonIf you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it. Votes: 0
Roger ScrutonIt just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it. Votes: 0
Tom PettyA writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. Votes: 0
Raymond ChandlerWhat horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. Votes: 3 Sylvia Plath
Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless. Votes: 2 Joyce Meyer
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. Votes: 1 Niccolo Machiavelli
There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things. Votes: 1 Daniel Radcliffe
As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen. Votes: 1 Jose Rizal
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. Votes: 1 Albert Camus
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. Votes: 7 Oscar Wilde
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. Votes: 7 Albert J. Nock
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability. Votes: 1 Liam Fox
Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless. Votes: 2 Alan Moore
Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful. Votes: 6 John Barnes
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. Votes: 2 Shirley MacLaine
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. Votes: 1 Dennis Prager
Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now. Votes: 1 Richard Reeves
I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear. Votes: 1 Robert Krulwich