Quotes About Use

The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

But when it comes time to decide your fate, they'll sign you on the line right next to Satan. Cause' they don't care about us. They just use us up.

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own, not, so to speak, the mustache and walking stick that happen to be the fashion of any particular moment.

When my enemies seek my life, how can I do other than use my endeavor to destroy them in my own defense?" The

The better question might be: Please tell me which of these scraps you would have been unable to use a few years ago—and exactly what do you have to do to them to make them what you would consider "safe"?

Reason is given to all men, but all men do not know how to use it. Liberty is offered to each one of us, but few learn to be free. Such gifts are, in any case, a right to be earned, not a privilege for the shiftless.

As for the life of money-making, it is one of constraint, and wealth manifestly is not the good we are seeking, because it is for use, that is, for the sake of something further:

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.

You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed?

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

One of the great tragedies of the post-9/11 world is actually that the US President didn't use all of the power the crisis gave him.

The supernatural greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

Because I know what it feels like to be used, valued only for what you can do... not who you are, not who you want to be.

What a strange creature is a laughing fool, As if a man were created to no useBut only to show his teeth.