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All art is quite useless.


Oscar Wilde
Tags: Art Quite Useless
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.


Quintilian
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Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.


Thomas Babington Macaulay
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No man is useless while he has a friend.


Robert Louis Stevenson
Tags: He Man While
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.


Karl Marx
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.


Herodotus
Tags: More Than Nothing
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.


Charles de Gaulle
Tags: You Your Else
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.


Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.


Esther Williams
Tags: Time You Unless
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
Lin Yutang
Tags: You How Live
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
Henri Poincare
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton Chekhov
The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.
Sophia Bush
Tags: Politics Me More
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.


Nikki Giovanni
Tags: You Think Your
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
Seth Godin
The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and postponing the problems endlessly.
Marc Faber
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
John Mayer
Tags: Like Just School
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Tags: He Say Man
The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
Katha Pollitt
Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble.
Howard Rheingold
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry Miller
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.
Sophocles
Tags: You Would He
To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can benefit from other instructive voices.
Matt Haig
Tags: Other Say Writing
I can't see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple days, but if there was no more pink lipstick in the world, I'd be useless. Seriously.
Nicki Minaj
Tags: More World Go
I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.
Mira Nair
Tags: Like Because Know
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.
Samuel Johnson
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
Archilochus
Tags: Nature Courage Me
Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.
John Phillips
Tags: You Just Out
Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.
Will Self
Tags: Me More Up
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.
Malcolm Wilson
Tags: Music Money Like
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
Nelson Mandela
Dad is a really surprising guy. Every time I think he's going to be useless, he ends up doing something amazing and saying exactly the right thing.
Clare Balding
Tags: Time Dad Amazing
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter
Tags: Good Great Power
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.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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.
Joyce Meyer
Tags: Good Our Most
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Thomas Merton
Tags: Only Most Us
In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?
Humphry Davy
If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
Antonin Scalia
In the romantic sense, I'm pretty useless with guys. If I see somebody who I'm attracted to, generally I just think, 'Oh well, he's not interested in me.' The only time that I talk to guys is when they talk to me first.
Carrie Underwood
Tags: Time Romantic Me
Every actor has an obsession with their hair. You can see it on set, and you start to realize it's completely silly. I can be very obsessed by my hair, but all these hours spent trying to style it are useless, because ultimately, you can't change your haircut. It's all the same.
Louis Garrel