Quotes About Utility

Wealth is clearly not the absolute good of which we are in search, for it is a utility, and only desirable as a means.

I'd like something that peels potatoes really quickly - that would be wonderful.

Boilersuits are used by everybody from pilots in the army to racing drivers to people who clean your drains. The one piece overall is what all males secretly desire.

A Birkin bag is a very good rain hat; just put everything else in a plastic bag.

I really do build furniture to be used, you see, to be lived with.

To avoid a blackout, electricity generating companies must lower generation in line with low demand.

If you think about what are glasses, they are the best example of form and function.

I wear a composite non-stick glove.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when everyone cranks up the air-conditioning.

If you're doing something like scheduling utility payments to come through your debit card or out of your personal checking account, that's perfectly fine. But there are much safer ways to handle situations with debt collectors. You can send a money order overnight, or wire the cash to them.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Someone asked me who I would be if I were a character in the 'Wizard of Oz.' I would be the curtain. I would be the one who saw both sides that nobody noticed, that was pretty and there to be used and discarded when they were done.

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

I can play anywhere. First, third, left field, anywhere but Philadelphia.

Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy.

Life has no use at all, declared Adiyogi. It is simply a phenomenon. Little acts have purpose. But life is not framed within the narrow grid of utility. It is beyond frames. It is beyond grids. It is beyond utility. If you have a taste of this existence beyond purpose, of life beyond sense, you are enlightened.

Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility.

Repentance is a kind of self-reproof for having neglected something useful; but that which is good must be something useful, and the perfect good man should look after it. But no such man would ever repent of having refused any sensual pleasure. Pleasure then is neither good nor useful.

Better is what benefits

Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility. For thou losest the opportunity of doing something else when thou hast such thoughts as these