“ Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.9K
“ How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
- 606
“ The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. ”
- Chanakya- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
- 655
“ The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 921
“ The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence. ”
- Theodor W. Adorno- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience. ”
- André Kostelanetz- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give. - Damien Hess. ”
- Damien Hess- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. ”
- William Burroughs- Copy
- 3.2K
“ One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures. ”
- James Reston- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. ”
- Thomas A. Edison- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. ”
- Edwin Way Teale- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb. ”
- Joseph Joubert- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. ”
- Doug Larson- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance. ”
- Giambattista Vico- Copy
- 608
“ The risks of luxury must be balanced against the costs of necessity and proof of utility. ”
- Arthur C. Frantzreb- Copy
- 913
“ Today the tyrant rules, not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher; he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
- 911
“ Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. ”
- Edward Dahlberg- Copy
- 624
“ Admit it, sport-utility-vehicle owners! It's shaped a little differently, but it's a station wagon! And you do not drive it across rivers! You drive it across the Wal-Mart parking lot! ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 3.6K
“ What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man. ”
- Ray Charles- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 182
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