Useless Quotes - Page 2

• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  Pablo Picasso

  Funny, Witty, Technology

  Quoted inWilliam Fifield, In Search of Genius (1982)

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• It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

  William Ralph Inge

  Sheep, Vegetarianism, Different

  Outspoken Essays: First Series "Patriotism" (1919)

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• Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

  Quintilian

  Natural Gifts, Natural

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Dog, Stupid People

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• Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

  Gore Vidal

  Business, Useless Stuff, Time Management

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• Music is essentially useless, as is life.

  George Santayana

  Music, Musician, Music Is

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• Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

  Francois Rabelais

  House, Arms, Study

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• If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

  Crystal Eastman

  Baby, Feminist, Pieces

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Nothing is more useful than the useless.

  Roger Scruton

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• All art is quite useless.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Art

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• 'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

  Plautus

  Mean, Justice, Diversity

  "Trinummus" by Plautus, Act II, sc. 4, line 37,

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• Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Positive, Regret, Waste

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• 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.

  Stewart Alsop

  Death, Time, Sleep

  Stewart Alsop (2016). “Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir”, p.257, Open Road Media

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• Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Law, Liberty

  "The Spirit of the Laws". Treatise by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXIX: Of the Manner of Composing Laws, Ch. 16: Things to be Observed in the Composing of Laws, 1748.

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• Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

  George S. Patton

  Courage, Military, War

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• No man is useless while he has a friend.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friendship, Cheer, Real Friends

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.550, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Passion, Romance

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• A useless life is an early death.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1786.

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• It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sadness, Useless Things

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

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• It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

  John Cage

  Sleep, Play, Lullaby

  John Cage (2010). “M: Writings ’67–’72”, p.15, Wesleyan University Press

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• It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

  Tris Speaker

  Successful, Player, Would Be

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Paul Prudhomme

  Thinking, Recipes, Want

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• Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.

  Minnie Driver

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• If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.

  Charles Inglis

  Country, Uprising, Kind

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