#useless

'He means well' is useless unless he does well. ↗

— Plautus

#means #unless #useless #well

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#i #i think #just #recipes #set

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#because #calls #counsel #effect #force

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#decide #governed #opinion #ought #say

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#directly #disinterested #force #knowledge #made

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#beneficial #change #confuse #distortion #innovation

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#knowledge #much #pleasure #useless #useless knowledge

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

#believe #cooperate #family #however #i

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. ↗

— John Cage

#play #sleep #those #useless #who

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. ↗

— Quintilian

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