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good-for-nothing

«Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing»
«He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be more sound than that of innocence»
«Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.»
«The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.»
«There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.»
«Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.»
«A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing»
«Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past»
Author: Sigmund Freud (Founder) | Keywords: good-for-nothing
«The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing»
«If a man's good for nothing else, he can at least teach philosophy.»