Useless Things Quotations

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.

Only useless things are indispensable.

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

Emperors are vain and useless things.

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

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

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.