Use quotes
6.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Browse quotes that often appear alongside use — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosis spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure."
"The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work."
"Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths."
"The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction."
"Now and then may not be enough…You have to enjoy it while you’re still young. enjoy it to the fullest. You can use the memories of what you did to warm your body after you get old and can’t do it anymore."
"There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means."
"Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire."
"The more you have, the more people want to use you and damage you."
"The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes."
"I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words."
"It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner."
"But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?"
"For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"
"What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?"
"Get to live; Then live, and use it; else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone."
"Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God."
"Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print."
"Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa."
"To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him."
"This would be a very good moment to institute a call for imposing the Chemical Weapons Convention on the Middle East. The actual Chemical Weapons Convention. Not the version that [Barack] Obama presented in his address to the nation and that media commentators repeat. What he said is that the convention bars the use of chemical weapons. He knows better. And so do the commentators. The Chemical Weapons Convention calls for banning the production, storage and use of chemical weapons, not just the use. So why omit production and storage?"
