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Ability without honor is useless. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
All art is quite useless. -- Oscar Wilde
A useless life is an early death. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. -- Marshall McLuhan
No man is useless while he has a friend. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. -- Bertrand Russell
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. -- Lin Yutang
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. -- George Bernard Shaw
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors. -- Samuel Richardson
There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself -- Michel de Montaigne
The most useless are those who never change through the years. -- James M. Barrie
Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous? -- Ovid
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. -- John Ruskin
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there. -- C. S. Lewis
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things. -- William Saroyan
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life. -- Tryon Edwards
He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed. -- George Orwell
The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men. ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use. -- Emily James Smith Putnam
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience. -- Dalai Lama
Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything." -- Langston Hughes
Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and timing seems important. When we play, we also celebrate holy uselessness. Like the calf frolicking in the meadow, we need no pretense or excuses. Work is productive; play, in its disinterestedness and self-forgetting, can be fruitful. -- Margaret Guenther
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain. -- Wilfred Trotter
What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. -- George Bernard Shaw
Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood. -- Lisa Unger
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. -- George Bernard Shaw
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification. -- George Santayana
Cats are useless. -- Mark Zupan
Accusations are useless. -- Dominique de Villepin
Antioxidants are completely useless. -- Michael Specter
Only useless things are indispensable. -- Francis Picabia
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Music is essentially useless, as is life. -- George Santayana
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. -- Quintilian
He means well' is useless unless he does well. -- Plautus
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
I think without writing I would feel completely useless. -- Sam Shepard
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. -- John Cage
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets. -- George S. Patton
Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless. -- John Wilkes Booth
The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness. -- Tom Robbins
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering. -- Bernard Malamud
To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness. -- James C. Malin
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. -- William Ellery Channing
Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long. -- Idries Shah
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. -- Dalai Lama
I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness. -- Patti Smith
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art. -- Eugene Ionesco
Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all. -- Libba Bray
Keep your friends close, enemies closer. Takes little effort to drive a sharp knife through their hearts when they outlive their uselessness! -- Akuku Mach Pep
Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person. -- Simone de Beauvoir
If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art. He gave himself to his own kind of religion. -- Gerald Stern
The throbbing habits of assumption tinted with malice lead to decisions and actions that drum out faith, trust and respect towards a crashing carelessness and uselessness. Be effective by discarding sneaking suspicions. -- Angelica Hopes
Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless. -- Carl Rogers

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