(1553 quotes found)
“Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly”
Sally Kempton
“Nothing is more useful than silence.”
Menander of Athens
“He uses language that would make your hair curl.”
William S. Gilbert
“Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.”
William A. Foster
“I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded, not on their usefulness to the community, so much as on what they are in themselves.... Indeed every man (sic), in every condition, is great. It is only our own diseased sight which makes him little. A man is great as a man, be he where or what he may. The grandeur of his nature turns to insignificance all outward distinctions.”
William Ellery Channing
“Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.”
Edward Everett Hale
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things / the teacher of all truth.”
Charles Kingsley
“When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]”
William Shakespeare
“He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.”
Christopher Columbus
