Serviceable Quotes
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
Jerry Garcia
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Henry Bolingbroke
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
Matthew Henry
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
Joseph Lancaster