Top 25 Useless Quotes of 493 - Page 11

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.132

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

Samuel Johnson

Love, Sorrow, Useless

Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.107

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

Wisdom, Sorrow, Useless

Samuel Johnson (1816). “A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774”, p.152

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

Samuel Johnson

Would Be, Useless, Theory

Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.394

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

Samuel Johnson

Grief, Exercise, Useless

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by Arthur Murphy] Poems. Rasselas, prince of Abissinia. Letters”, p.311

To a poet nothing can be useless.

Samuel Johnson

Useless, Poet

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.463

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

Sam Shepard

Writing, Thinking, Useless

"Sam Shepard opens up". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

Roger Scruton

Useless, Want, Architecture

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

Philip Levine

Tears, Useless, Lasts

Philip Levine, “Father”

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

Peter Drucker

Should Have, Tasks, Useless

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.

Peter Beard

Secret, Diaries, Useless

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

Paul Prudhomme

Thinking, Useless, Recipes

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

Paul Cezanne

Art, Useless, Art Is

It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.

Norm MacDonald

People, Useless, Reputation

I can't see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple of days, but if there was no more pink lipstick in this world, I'd be useless. Seriously.

Nicki Minaj

Couple, Red Lipstick, Useless