#useless

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

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

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. ↗

— George Ade

#dear #friend #may #near #relative

The most useless are those who never change through the years. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#most #never #those #through #useless

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#clear #different #experiments #made #method

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

— George Byron

#man #might #reason #sleep #tell

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man. ↗

— Westbrook Pegler

#ever #game #golf #man #most

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#desire #devotional #discussions #energy #faith

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. ↗

— Sophocles

#bred #children #except #furnishes #gives