Quotes of Servant - somelinesforyou

“ The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Servant of God, well done! Well hast thou fought The better fight. ”

- John Milton

“ Money makes a good servant, but a bad master. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor. ”

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“ If I'd been a housemaid, I'd have been the best in Australia-I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me. ”

- Nellie Melba

“ Base is the slave that pays. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. ”

- P.T. Barnum

“ Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. ”

- Caecilius Statius

“ It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. ”

- Aesop

“ His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. ”

- James M. Barrie

“ A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land. ”

- Martin Luther

“ A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant. ”

- William Frederick Book

“ And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Every good servant does not all commands. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Every great house is full of haughty servants. ”

- Juvenal

“ Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. ”

- Nathaniel Emmons

“ I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master. ”

- Brigham Young

“ If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ In that way, imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find. ”

- Gerald F. Lieberman

“ One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants. ”

- Samuel Johnson
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