Quotes of Useless - somelinesforyou

“ Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. ”

- Friedrich von Schiller

“ If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how.". ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing. ”

- Claudian

“ A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice. ”

- Isaac Watts

“ If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love. ”

- Ovid

“ Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. ”

- Rosalia Castro

“ I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Unless the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh in vain. ”

- Motto

“ Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world. ”

- Book of Common Prayer

“ Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. ”

- John Dryden

“ Luck is the idol of the idle. ”

- Unknown

“ The tear of sympathy never falls in vain; it waters and fertilizes the soil of the most sterile heart and causes it to flourish with the beautiful flowers of gratitude and love. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere. ”

- Unknown

“ Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. ”

- Arthur Brisbane

“ 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

“ To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful. ”

- Carl Gustav Jung

“ The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. ”

- Anatole France

“ There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. - James Nathan Miller. ”

- James Nathan Miller

“ To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says. ”

- Fontenelle

“ Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped. ”

- Mohamad Mahathir

“ I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father. ”

- Lisa Marie Presley

“ Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. ”

- Bible

“ You are not unworthy of the men who entered the ranks of a Macedonian phalanx, and who contended not in vain with the proud conquerors of Asia. ”

- Giuseppe Garibaldi

“ Destroy his fib, or sophistry — in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause. ”

- George Eliot

“ It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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