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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. -- Baron de Montesquieu
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. -- Herodotus
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. -- Thomas A. Edison
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. -- Charles Dickens
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. -- Peter Drucker
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. -- Shirley MacLaine
The most useless are those who never change through the years. -- James M. Barrie
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. -- Karl Marx
All art is quite useless. -- Oscar Wilde
Plans are useless, but planning is essential. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. -- Bertrand Russell
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. -- John Cage
I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. -- Walter Legge
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. -- Abu Bakr
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. -- Tom Stoppard
It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting. -- Tris Speaker
I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless. -- Paul Prudhomme
Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it. -- Minnie Driver
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. -- Charles de Gaulle
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. -- Albert J. Nock
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. -- William Ralph Inge
If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless. -- Darryl F. Zanuck
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
I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad. -- Claire Danes
Useless as a pulled tooth. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Useless, idle, exploitative male chauvinist drone! -- Sue Limb
Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful. -- John Barnes
Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference. -- David Deida
Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story -- Hilary Duff
The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears. -- Carmen Laforet
Accusations are useless. -- Dominique de Villepin
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets. -- George S. Patton
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. -- Giacomo Casanova
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. -- Lin Yutang
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. -- Chief Seattle
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. -- Lafcadio Hearn
I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. -- Douglas MacArthur
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 defenceless people. -- Nelson Mandela
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled. -- Ramakrishna
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul. -- George Matthew Adams
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
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. -- Ernest Hemingway
I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say. -- Geronimo
I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system. -- Helen Mirren
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except in the vernacular and in contemporary folk myth, where it remains trapped and politically useless. -- Michael Leunig
When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem. -- Joyce Meyer
I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation. -- Edmund Hillary
I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless? -- Stuart Rose
Cats are useless. -- Mark Zupan
Most arguments are useless. -- Aesop
Antioxidants are completely useless. -- Michael Specter
Life is a useless passion. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Only useless things are indispensable. -- Francis Picabia
Sensible people find nothing useless. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Things are useless without practice. -- Erykah Badu
Intention without action is useless. -- Caroline Myss
Knowledge without understanding is useless. -- Thucydides
Ideas without action are useless. -- Helen Keller
Ability without honor is useless. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless. -- Gary Renard
The elderly are useless eaters. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Ideas are useless unless used. -- Theodore Levitt
I cannot abide useless people. -- Joss Whedon
Power unused is power useless. -- Gloria Feldt
Most animal experimentation is useless. -- Henry Heimlich
Excuses are useless. Results are priceless. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Technology. It's like science, only useless. -- Jon Stewart
It is useless attacking the insensible. -- Aesop
Nothing useless can be truly beautiful. -- Tony Wilson
Emperors are vain and useless things. -- Scott Westerfeld
It's useless to lecture a human. -- Rick Riordan
Suspicion is most often useless pain. -- Samuel Johnson
A useless life is an early death. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless. -- Edward Gibbon
Get up, you useless lump, get up! -- J. K. Rowling
The bullets are useless! And it's dilating! -- Whit Bissell
To a poet nothing can be useless. -- Samuel Johnson
Without the doing, the dreaming is useless. -- Robin Sharma
Chatter about art is almost always useless. -- Paul Cezanne
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless." -- Edward Gibbon
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. -- Quintilian
Talent without work is useless, thank God -- Mark Twain
Music is essentially useless, as life is. -- George Santayana
Music is essentially useless, as is life. -- George Santayana
Nothing is more useful than the useless. -- Roger Scruton
Not all that is mortal is useless. -- Cassandra Clare
Suspicion is very often a useless pain. -- Samuel Johnson
Without courage, all other virtues are useless. -- Edward Abbey
Remorse for what is done is useless. -- Philo
All art critics are useless or harmful. -- Umberto Boccioni
Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless. -- Neal Shusterman
Books without the knowledge of life are useless. -- Samuel Johnson
The younger one looked to be completely useless. -- Megan Whalen Turner
Civilization is the art of creating useless needs. -- Leo Errera
Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain. -- John Calvin
My regret was immediate and permanent and useless. -- John Green
Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people. -- Jane Espenson
People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless. -- Frank Herbert
Most everything government does is worse than useless. -- James Cook
This summer I have discovered something totally useless. -- Peter Higgs
Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway -- John Green
I hate decaffeinated coffee. It's useless brown water. -- David Letterman
A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless. -- Confucius
And here I always thought morality was useless -- Jeff Lindsay
One grows out of pity when it's useless. -- Albert Camus
It is useless work that darkens the heart. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is useless to send armies against ideas. -- Georg Brandes
Better to be strong than pretty and useless. -- Lilith Saintcrow
We need useless theory more than ever today. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Mirrors are useless for reflecting who you are. -- Fernando A. Torres
Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information? -- Simone Elkeles
Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless. -- Bill Bryson

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