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A fool is a thorn in his own flesh,
and day after day his wounds worsen.
The more he serves folly,
the more foolish he becomes. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A leader learned to follow, and serves the followers who are learning to lead. ~T.F. Hodge — T.F. Hodge

Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend. — William Shakespeare

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses — Kamila Shamsie

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served. — Wallace D. Wattles

Celebrity never really served me that well; it serves other people well. — Casey Affleck

Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Lake Mary, Florida. He also serves as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's in Sanford, Florida, — R.C. Sproul

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want. — Eleanor Mondale

If art serves any purpose at all, it is to keep alive the spirit of freedom. — Marty Rubin

All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence. — Matt Haig

If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil. — Martin Luther

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without any quality of persons, some must be free, some serves, some rulers, some subjects. — Martin Luther

The Sinclairs are athletic, tall, and handsome. We are old-money Democrats. Our smiles are wide, our chins square, and our tennis serves aggressive. — E. Lockhart

That failure serves a purpose! — Ogwo David Emenike

A person's attitude to money determines whom he serves in life. — Sunday Adelaja

Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him. — Samson Raphael Hirsch

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one. — Peter Greenaway

An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name. — Rene Magritte

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

The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress. — Hassanal Bolkiah

A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way. — Titus Burckhardt

One day all men must die, but it serves no good to dwell on death. I prefer to take each day as it comes. — George R R Martin

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. — Marshall McLuhan

Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose. — Larry Wall

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

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul. — Karl Jaspers

Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness. — Peter London

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself. — Timothy M. Dolan

The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves . — Dwight L. Moody

This also serves as a warning, that science may not yet be in its final form. — Steven Weinberg

A money-lender
he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future. — Joseph Addison

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that. — George Stroumboulopoulos

War serves only the warlords and the graveyards! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A highly developed values system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost. — Idowu Koyenikan

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living. — Albert Einstein

Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views. — Jimmy Wales

Leave yesterday in yesterday. If yesterday cannot add value to YOUR today, then it has no place and serves no purpose. — Stephanie Lahart

Without a future, the present serves no purpose, — Jose Saramago

Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior. — David D. Burns

Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin. — John Calvin

Sometimes, the best advisor is one that serves as a sounding board for his commander's thoughts. — B.V. Larson

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose — Eckhart Tolle

Far too often we've let humanity become a commodity that serves us along the way, rather than an asset that enriches our journey. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products. — John Kenneth Galbraith

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance. — Huineng

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film. — Judy Greer

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves. — Elbert Hubbard

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer. — Murray Rothbard

He that serves well needes not ask his wages. — George Herbert

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

Jax Cassidy serves up great sex with emotional intensity--what more can a reader want? — Kayla Perrin

I got an emergency leave. I visited my dad on his deathbed. His last words to me: "Try to pick up every waitress who serves you. — James Ellroy

Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things. — Carly Rae Jepsen

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older. — Sarah Brightman

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero. — Edward Abbey

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead. — Dennis Lehane

If nothing else, the act of reaching a milestone often serves to reveal a superstar's true nature. — Stephen Rodrick

That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies. — Caroline Myss

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? — William Shakespeare

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. — Douglas Coupland

My shadow serves as the friend I crave. — Anna Akhmatova

A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God. — Leland Ryken

Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness. — Walker Percy

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use. — Alan Bennett

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose. — Albert Camus

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy. — William Irwin Thompson

There is no emergency. My divine timing is perfect and serves you well. Trust my sense of right action. Your successful unfolding is my great joy. — Julia Cameron

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere. — Leo Tolstoy

My hunger serves me instead of a clock. — Jonathan Swift

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. — Edward Dowden

Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective. — Sheila Rowbotham

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid. — Steve Berry

I wouldn't be the best offensive player if I didn't have a great setter. She serves me up nectar. — Misty May-Treanor

Defeat serves to enlighten us. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Research is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING — Rayne Hall

For wherever mystery serves as a foundation, only ruins may be erected. — Thomas Ligotti

We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function. — Paul Park

He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest — E. Urner Goodman

I have said it before but it bears repeating: Aid is not a gift. The United States provides foreign assistance because it serves OUR interests. — Howard Berman

That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth, — Martin Luther King Jr.

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them. — Horace

He that serves God is resigned up into him, and in all things has respect to truth and righteousness, and will promote that. — Jakob Bohme

Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation
for greater living and greater relationships. — Mary Morrissey

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state. — Stefan Molyneux

Love obsession often serves as a distraction, keeping the individual's gaze from more painful thoughts. — Irvin D. Yalom

The god-who-serves-ME requires flattery, not worship. — Tom Wells

Knowing serves no real purpose, but then, neither does not knowing. Myself, I always prefer knowing to not. — Robert Jordan

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up. — Andre Gide

A wise man never asks what another man serves, for only his actions will speak the truth. — Seneca.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves. — David Halberstam

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work. — Charles E. Burchfield

The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression . — Thurgood Marshall

With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves. — Marshall B. Rosenberg