#useless

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#course #know #nothing #than #things

I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running. ↗

— Sarah Sutton

#around #because #else #everyone #fast

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. ↗

— John Cage

#play #sleep #those #useless #who

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. ↗

— Quintilian

#natural #rules #technical #useless #without

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#battered #bloody #cease #enough #further

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. ↗

— Moliere

#every #every heart #everyone #frank #heart

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. ↗

— John Ruskin

#beautiful things #instance #lilies #most #most beautiful

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away. ↗

— Archilochus

#boast #cast #courage #field #find

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it. ↗

— Nikki Cox

#cook #down #get #i #life

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#done #efficiently #nothing #should #useless