#useless

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting. ↗

— Tris Speaker

#attempt #batting #explain #player #successful

I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that was no longer spoken. I believe that all the little good I got from years of classical studies I could have got in adult life in a month. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#useless #waste #life

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on. ↗

— Molly Harper

#trivia #undead #useless-information #vampire-romance #information

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? ↗

— Humphry Davy

#attempt #cause #chemical #electrical #energy

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#anything #bidding #doctor #even #good

Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless. ↗

— John Wilkes Booth

#died #i #mother #tell #useless

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#before #comes #depend #every #facts

Accusations are useless. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

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

— Oscar Wilde

#little #nowadays #sad #sad thing #thing

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#business #continue #enormous #excessive #family