Quotes about Utility

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

- Joseph Addison

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

- James A. Garfield

Nature does nothing uselessly.

- Aristotle

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

- Washington Irving

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

- Samuel Johnson

I pray that we might not outlive our usefulness.

- David Brainerd