Top Useless Quotes
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. Patton
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton Chekhov
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
Anne Stevenson
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
Albert Pike
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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. Patton 
84% of people like this quote
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton Chekhov
81% of people like this quote
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
Anne Stevenson
77% of people like this quote
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison
69% of people like this quote
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
Albert Pike
62% of people like this quote
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
Shirley MacLaine
61% of people like this quote
Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
Paul Newman
60% of people like this quote
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Chuck Jones
59% of people like this quote
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin
59% of people like this quote
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