It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Giacomo Casanova

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge

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

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
Lord Byron

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
George Byron

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.
Charles D. Broad

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
Dean Inge

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.
Tris Speaker

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
Shirley MacLaine

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
John Cage

It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.
David Zucker

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

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
Archilochus

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

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
Albert J. Nock

Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.
Vladimir Mayakovsky

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus

Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now.
Richard Reeves

Music is essentially useless, as is life.
George Santayana

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
Jeffery Deaver