Quotes About Useless

Does anyone want a pack of dead batteries? They are free of charge!

He would cast about in his mind for some words that might console her, and would find only lame and useless ones.

To be likeable as a woman, it seems, you have to ensure that you're also non-threatening and slightly useless.

There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to act in cases where the highest judgment is required. The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly; wherefore the different parts, by unnaturally opposing and destroying each other, prove the whole character to be absurd and useless.

to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all.

You have always been useless. But that doesn't mean you aren't necessary. What do you mean? Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as useful ones.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.

I despise the wintertime. I never did see what was the use in there even bein one.

suppressed kind. What I wanted to know (it was useless, and adolescent as well)

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

What I know for sure is that freaking out about your student loan debt is useless. You'll be okay. It's only money. And it was money well spent.

It wishes to see only "useful things" produced, but it forgets that production of too many useful things produces too large a useless population.

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. OSCAR WILDE

When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. That

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity.

Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.