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