Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angela Carter

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.

Mo Rocca

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Georges Clemenceau

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Francis Picabia

Only useless things are indispensable.

Frances Farmer

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.

George Eliot

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

Henry Ford

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Henry Ford

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Scott Westerfeld

Emperors are vain and useless things.

Bill Bryson

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

Dave Barry

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Alan Coren

The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

Charles Bukowski

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

Aldo Leopold

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

Abu Bakr

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

A. J. Jacobs

Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.

Alice Englert

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

Albert J. Nock

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.

Mel Gibson

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

Mary Howitt

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.

Hosea Ballou

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

Horace

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

Mark Twain

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

Philip Sidney

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No.

Joseph Addison

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

John Gay

Who talks much, must talk in vain.