Servant Quotes

848 quotes by 623 authors

A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar… — Fanny Kemble
NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not an underpaid civil… — Mary Roach
The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his… — Jonathan Rosen
A Christian is the greatest freeman in the world; he is free from the wrath of God, free from hell and damnation, form the curse… — Richard Sibbes
It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure)… — Criss Jami
When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter… — Criss Jami
When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them. — George Bernard Shaw
The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The… — John Kenneth Galbraith
A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea… — John Dryden
I like the idea of taking what is essentially a boring, officious job and turning it into something that is a fantasy, to a degree.… — Guy Ritchie
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. — Benjamin Franklin
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which… — Mahatma Gandhi
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. — Charles de Gaulle
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies. — Billy Graham
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. — William Congreve
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the… — Annie Dillard
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel

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