Useless Quotes

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

I know that many will call this useless work. Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy-on experience, the mistress of their Masters.

Even linguistics and semantics conspire to give this impression. If you look in Roget's Thesaurus you will find about 120 synonyms for black, and right down the line you will find words like smut, something dirty, worthless, and useless, and then you look further and you find about 120 synonyms for white and they all represent something high, noble, pure, chaste - right down the line.

Oh God, I pray I'll never get AIDS. So many friends have it. Some have died, others won't last much longer. I'm terrified that I'll be next. Immediately after each time I have sex I think, 'Suppose that was the one? Suppose the virus is now in my body? I jump in the shower and scrub myself clean, although I know it's useless and anyway it's too late.

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.