Serves Quotes

619 quotes by 514 authors

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven. — Friedrich Schiller
He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? — William Shakespeare
Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary… — Joseph Addison
Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do… — Leonardo da Vinci
Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near. — Alexander Pope
If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when… — Dorothy Day
The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances,… — Laurence Sterne
The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants… — Jose Marti
A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I… — Wilhelm Reich
The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility… — Thorstein Veblen
To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials.… — V.S. Naipaul
An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name. — Rene Magritte
In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model… — Giorgio Vasari
Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of… — Otto Rank
We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country,… — Andrew Lansley
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Every man, who parrots the cry of â€˜stand by the Presidentâ€™ without adding the proviso â€˜so far as he serves the Republicâ€™ takes an attitude… — Theodore Roosevelt
No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another,… — Ignatius Loyola

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