Convenience Quotes

266 Convenience quotes by 224 unique authors

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. — Mignon McLaughlin
Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration. — W. Somerset Maugham
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. — Samuel Johnson
The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and… — Lewis Mumford
We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with… — Amy Vanderbilt
The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry… — Ted Nelson
The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians… — Garrison Keillor
The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means… — John Calvin
When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is… — Etty Hillesum
An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of… — Nikola Tesla
The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite… — Nelson Rockefeller
There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience. — John D. Barrow
In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced. — Andrew Coyle Bradley
I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as they're balanced with fresh vegetables. It's hard to… — Tyler Florence
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep… — Joseph Story
But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To… — Fernando Flores
It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer. — Saint Augustine
'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at… — Adela Popescu
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important,… — Robert A. Heinlein
It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit… — Samuel Johnson
The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never… — Samuel Johnson
True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience. — Baruch Spinoza
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time. — Jay Leno

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