#serviceable

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years? ↗

— Charles Eames

#going #how #look #problem #questions

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#greatness #make #makes #more #much

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#commoner #durable #gold #like #more

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#forte #hang #his #hunter #like

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attainment #being #coercion #encouragement #forfeiture

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. ↗

— Henry Miller

#arts #least #mind #serviceable #waking

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#quote #serviceable #substitute #wit

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#everything #nothing #serviceable #sufficient

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#cause #greatest #politician #render #serviceable