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
Joseph Lancaster 
John Cheever 
Richard M. Nixon 
Ovid 
Cleveland Abbe 
Jose Saramago 
Ellen Terry 
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Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.
Johannes Rau 
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Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.
Joseph Lancaster
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