Uselessness Quotes

What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.

Dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it …

Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

All art is quite useless.

The vice presidency ain't worth a pitcher of warm spit.

What chiefly governs the military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

To govern Italy is not only impossible, it is useless.

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

Rotten wood cannot be carved.

Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.

Revenge is the most worthless weapon in the world.

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

Every punishment is based, not on logic or the feeling of justice, but on the desire to wish evil on those who have done evil to you or to another person…. Everything about our present system of punishments and about all criminal law will be thought of by future generations in the same way that we think of cannibalism or human sacrifice to the pagan gods. “How did they not see the uselessness and cruelty of those things which they did?” our descendants will say about us.

He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

There is nothing harder for me than to sit at the sideline, not being able to be productive.

Worst case scenario, nothing I do has any value or purpose, but if I can make someone laugh, I'm at least as useful as a piece of quiche would be.