#useless

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep. ↗

— Lord Byron

#man #might #reason #sleep #tell

Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#also #because #ears #especially #furry

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#been #before #blow #i #made

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

— Louis C. K.

#bored #great #i #live #none

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. ↗

— Democritus

#blindness #excepting #folly #gifts #give

Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#celebrity #something #unless #useless #weird

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#how #learned #live #manner #perfectly

A useless life is an early death. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#early #life #useless

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#depends #develop #early #enables #finish

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#advocated #both #complete #destructiveness #disputes