Serves Quotes

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Chanakya

Good, Morning, Mother

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee

Goal, Often, Aim

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare

Life, Men, Lose

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
Steven Wright

Time, Breakfast, Restaurant

I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
Beth Ditto

Great, Karma, Mean

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
James Allen

Truth, Him, Cannot

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
Voltaire

Wicked, Pretext

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher

Strength, Strong, Greatest

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Voltaire

Country, Whoever, Ancestors

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Job, Thinking, Painful

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope, End, Lives

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.
Louisa May Alcott

Learning, Emotional, May

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal

Life, Truth, Nothing

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
Eddie Vedder

Life, Change, Music

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

War, State, Tyranny

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de Montaigne

Him, Wind, Voyage

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust

Happiness, Purpose, Possible

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Lionel Trilling

Others, Advantage, Oneself

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Best, Mediocrity

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Simone Weil

Purpose, Avoid, Deceived

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.
Dorothy Height

Life, Strong, Important

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.
Jennifer Aniston

Love, Acting, Else

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
Doug Coupland

Strong, Brain, Die

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
Igor Stravinsky

Self, Execution, Precision

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
Garrett Hardin

Heart, Ecology, Continuity

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry Adams

Purpose, Stands, Cheers

And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.
John Boehner

Trust, Freedom, Government

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.
Brendan Fraser

Through, Show, Purpose

My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Character, Rather, Natural

I think punditry serves no purpose.
Nate Silver

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