#useless

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#course #know #nothing #than #things

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#believe #cooperate #family #however #i

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

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times. ↗

— Jack Vance

#away #countless #done #find #fit

Intellectuals are useless, and as a pseudo-intellectual I can't help but envy the practicality of that. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #pseuso-intellectuals #uselessness #funny

With grumble, nobody changes anything, even himself. ↗

— Toba Beta

#grumble #useless #change

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#does #happiness #idleness #life #only

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

Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit." "We did say it was still only a dream." "And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change. ↗

— Athol Fugard

#dreams #hally #life #life-lessons #life-sucks

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#contend #continually #creating #destruction #goes