useless quotes

Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.

-William Cobbett
  In the first issue of Porcupine's Gazette, 4 Mar,'Address to the public'.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless; nay, the speech they have resolved not to make.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
  Felix Holt, ch.2.

There are even times when any assumption of dignity becomes ludicrous, and the traveller must, as Mungo Park once had to do,'lay down as a rule to make himself as useless and as insignificant as possible, as the only means of recovering his liberty'.

- Sir Francis Galton
  The Art of  Travel.

All wars are useless to the dead.

- Adrienne Cecile Rich
  Leaflets,'Implosions'.

Lord, let me not live to be useless!

-John Wesley
  Journal entry, 22 Dec.