Serviceable Quotes

51 quotes by 44 authors

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. — Samuel Butler
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel
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
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
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
A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. — Karl Kraus
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
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
When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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
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
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
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
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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
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
Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable. — Norton Juster
If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community — George Bernard Shaw
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
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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