Useless Quotations | Page 2

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.

We still believe that the law violates the United States Constitution. We feel very strongly that it's extremely unfair and useless to evict Mr. Slack. He is not a danger to the students of Woodward Elementary.

Web-based multimodal and speech technologies are a welcome solution to the information overload we all face today, representing a fundamental change in the software capabilities of mobile devices. In fact, without them the Web would be practically useless on mobile phones. Wake Forest is a leader in delivering personalized information to students and faculty virtually no matter where they are.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.