Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raymond Chandler

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

Samuel Johnson

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

Napoleon Hill

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

Mo Rocca

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

Milton Friedman

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

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.

Edward Abbey

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

Dominique de Villepin

Accusations are useless.

Jose Mujica

I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

Aldo Leopold

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.

Albert Camus

One grows out of pity when it's useless.

Chuck Palahniuk

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

Alfred Hitchcock

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

Alfred Adler

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

Alton Brown

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

Richard Turner

Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.

Sonia Rykiel

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

Sophia Bush

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

Sylvia Pankhurst

. . . the fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely intelligible, has made English a model, pointing the way which must be followed in building the Interlanguage. . .

Markus Zusak

The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.

Mircea Eliade

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

Michael Buble

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

Madonna Ciccone

Words are useless, especially sentences.

Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

Michel de Montaigne

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

When together, an ocean. When separate, a useless drop.

Francis Bacon

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.