Top Usefulness Quotes
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
Ovid
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
William Graham Sumner
My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
Lord Mountbatten
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings
Thomas Merton 
Woodrow Wilson 
Richard M. Nixon 
David F. Houston 
Cleveland Abbe 
Johannes Rau 
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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
William Graham Sumner 
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings
59% of people like this quote
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
John George Nicolay
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Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.
Richard Ernst
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Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.
Ellen Terry
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OvidRichard M. NixonTheodore RooseveltJosh BillingsWoodrow WilsonJose SaramagoKevin KellyThomas MertonWalter Savage LandorWilliam Graham SumnerPeace PilgrimAlex CampbellLord MountbattenJoseph LancasterJohn Cheever
Gene TunneyDavid F. HoustonKjell Magne BondevikLiberty Hyde BaileyCharles SimmonsKoichi TanakaE. T. BellRichard ErnstJohn George NicolayPeter AgreEllen TerryJohannes RauAlfred KorzybskiCleveland AbbeCharles William Eliot
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