#usefulness

The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country. ↗

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. ↗

#dream #either #excellence #happiness #into

Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does? ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#endings #usefulness #death

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#because #boy #business #companionship #end

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#attention #delightful #duty #easy #energy

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#bend #direction #like #lose #men

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#military #trophy #usefulness #value

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#early #law #parallel #politics #roads

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness. ↗