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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
It's useless to criticize things that people love and something that speaks to them.
Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.
There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.
Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!
Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities.
High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.
I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her.
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.
In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.
Every day you spend becoming an expert in a field, you become more useless in that field.
I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.
The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.
Look don’t sit there behind the computer like a useless vegetable and tell me how to train
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.
Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data.
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)
All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.
Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.
I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless.
It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.
Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.
Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best."
A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.
The minute I start being afraid of what people might say is the minute I become useless to God.
Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.