Top 17 Quotes About Useless Father
#1. He thought he would become accustomed to the idea, not yet understanding that it is useless to become accustomed to the loss of a father, for it will never happen a second time: might as well leave the wound open.
Umberto Eco
#2. Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)
Alexandre Dumas
#3. The last thing you want to do is turn into a nerd like your father, nose always buried in a book, living like a tramp just to get one of those useless PhD thingies. And look where his posh Cambridge education got him - a flipping poet, for chrissakes!
Tabitha Suzuma
#4. Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.
Morrissey
#5. Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.
Robert Browning
#6. Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
George Eliot
#7. When you have a hammer in your hand, everything around you starts looking like a nail.
Auliq Ice
#8. Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life
for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes
I throw all my useless baggage in the sea, that's all, and remain with my will, prepared to live entirely alone and consequently entirely free.
Alexandre Dumas
#9. (Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, A man who speaks but one language understands none.
Orson Scott Card
#10. Demon's coming! Everyone dies. Except for her useless father. He'll live for ever.
Maggie Stiefvater
#11. Occurred to him that no one who hadn't been in battle could know what things were worth.
Chris Cleave
#12. They talked about each others' houses, and characters, and families
just as the Joneses do about the Smiths.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#13. Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Thomas Beecham
#14. For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother.
Gautama Buddha
#15. The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
Jeremy Bentham
#17. My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
Margot Asquith
