If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that... →
Samuel Richardson
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
Anne Roiphe
I had a lot of chances to do things that other people don't ever get, and I have to be content with that. I have to look around for some other... →
Linda Ronstadt
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Salman Rushdie
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.
John Ralston Saul
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student... →
Walter Scott
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
Margaret Spellings
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Jonathan Swift