#useful

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#commons #deal #does #great #great deal

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#i #i am #life #longer #my life

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#basic #basic research #before #geared #more

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#because #crime #desire #discrimination #due

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. ↗

— William Bartram

#attention #climates #different #distinctions #explore

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#usefulness #life

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#innocence #useful-idiots #age

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ↗

— William Morris

#believe #house #know #nothing #useful

There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones. ↗

— Libba Bray

#is-right #most-of-the-time #useful #beauty

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect. ↗

— Robert Shea

#beings #both #combination #every #human