Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

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

Some things that are true are not very useful.

Nothing is more useful than the useless.

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

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

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

Do nothing which is of no use.

I'm very pragmatic.

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorized

Advise not on what is pleasant, but what is most useful.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines.

I'm not Mr. Goody-Good or anything, but I'm not stupid.

Common sense is often underrated.

Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

I smil'd to my self at the sight of this money, O drug! said I aloud, what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no not the taking off of the ground, one of those knives is worth all this heap, I have no manner of use for thee, e'en remain where thou art, and go to the bottom as a creature whose life is not worth saving. However, upon second thoughts, I took it away.

Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.