Serviceable Quotes
51 quotes by 44 authors
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
— Samuel Butler
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains,…
— Mark Twain
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Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable…
— John Ruskin
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A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
— Karl Kraus
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This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse;…
— Joseph Lancaster
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For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value.…
— Tycho Brahe
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When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.
— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it;…
— Friedrich Schiller
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of…
— John Maynard Keynes
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There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about…
— James Berardinelli
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Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
— Norton Juster
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community
— George Bernard Shaw
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To place any dependence upon Militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff ... If I was called upon to declare upon Oath , whether…
— George Washington
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Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling,…
— Laozi
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