She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a
serviceable substitute for wit.
View quotes by W Somerset MaughamA woman occasionally is quite a
serviceable substitute for masturbation.
View quotes by Karl KrausA virtue to be
serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
View quotes by Samuel ButlerIf any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so
serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. - Mansfield Park
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