John Dryden Quotes

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

Worst case scenario, nothing I do has any value or purpose, but if I can make someone laugh, I'm at least as useful as a piece of quiche would be.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

All things in their beeing are good for something.

The best thing a person can be is of-some-use.

First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

What is the use of a new-born child ?

Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.

And not a vanity is given in vain.

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.

There is a use for almost everything.

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

"Right!" "Right!" "You can get there!" "I can get there!" "You're a natural at counting to two!" "I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!" "If you can count to two, you can count to anything!" "If I can count to two, I can count to anything!" "And then the world is your mollusc!" "My mollusc! What's a mollusc?

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless.