#useless

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

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#dumb #i #information #just #thoroughly

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

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. ↗

— Herodotus

#given #mob #more #nothing #outrage

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. ↗

— Dean Inge

#favor #make #only #opinion #pass

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#favor #opinion #pass #remains #resolutions

Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless. ↗

— Todd Akin

#just #just because #make #makes #mistake