Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georges Clemenceau

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

Horace

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

Francis Picabia

Only useless things are indispensable.

Francis Bacon

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

Mircea Eliade

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

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.

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.

Markus Zusak

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

Jack Nicholson

Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.

Guy Pearce

If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.

Gloria Feldt

Power unused is power useless.

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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

Jasper Carrott

I have to confess here that I am a useless cook.

George Eliot

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

John Calvin

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

Herodotus

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

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.

Nikki Cox

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

Minnie Driver

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

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!

Mahatma Gandhi

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

James Surowiecki

To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.

Henry Adams

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

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.

Jose Rizal

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Leo Tolstoy

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

Joseph Campbell

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

Joy Behar

It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

Ellen Hopkins

As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless.