Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
Paul Newman

No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens

Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.
Helena Bonham Carter

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.
King Hussein I

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
Democritus

Only useless things are indispensable.
Francis Picabia

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

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.
Daphne Zuniga

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

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
Jack Vance

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.
John Wilkes Booth

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
Chanakya

The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?
Franz Beckenbauer

The most useless are those who never change through the years.
James M. Barrie

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Nicolas Chamfort

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