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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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin 
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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
Tom Stoppard
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It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.
Tris Speaker
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Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.
Minnie Driver
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The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
Esther Williams
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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