As useless as monkey's grease. [ Proverb ]

To a poet nothing can be useless. [ Johnson ]

A useless life is but an early death. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

At a round table the heralds useless. [ Proverb ]

Suspicion is very often a useless pain. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Curiosity is endless, restless and useless. [ Proverb ]

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless. [ Johnson ]

To be employed in useless things, is half to be idle. [ Proverb ]

It is useless to have youth without beauty, or beauty without youth. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Much reading is like much eating, - wholly useless without digestion. [ South ]

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

Then let these useless streams be stayed; wear native courage in your face. [ Dr. Watts ]

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. [ Beaconsfield ]

That friendship, which is exerted in too wide a sphere, becomes totally useless. [ Goldsmith ]

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. [ Proverb ]

Reading is useless to some people: ideas pass through their heads without remaining. [ C. Jordan ]

The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character. [ Segur ]

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. [ Balzac ]

If all hearts were frank, just, and honest, the major part of the virtues would be useless to us. [ Moliere ]

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. [ Johnson ]

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance. [ Ruskin ]

The whole body of the pure mathematics is absolutely useless to ninety-nine out of every hundred who study them. [ T. S. Grimke ]

Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. [ Johnson ]

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. [ Boiste ]

Good resolutions are a useless attempt to interfere with scientific laws; their origin pure vanity, their results absolutely nil. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The custom of frequent reflection will keep their minds from running adrift, and call their thoughts home from useless unattentive roving. [ Locke ]

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best. [ Owen Feltham ]

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. [ Dr. Johnson ]

To know what is useful and what useless, and to be skilful to provide the one and wise to scorn the other, is the first need for all industrious men. [ John Ruskin ]

By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden underfoot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond? [ Mrs. Stowe ]

Life is arid and terrible; repose is a chimera; prudence useless; reason itself serves only to dry up the heart. There is but one virtue - the eternal sacrifice of self. [ George Sand ]

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us. [ Montaigne ]

Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age - the only perfectly beautiful things on earth - joyous, innocent, half divine - useless, say they who are wiser than God. [ Ouida ]

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable. [ La Rochefoucauld ]