Clerks Quote by William Cowper Download Open image “There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.” — William Cowper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clerks Inspirational Preaching Scarce Sparks
ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind. — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
“I am, madam, Jonathan Randall, Esquire, Captain of His Majesty’s Eighth Dragoons. At your service, madam.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
“Who could sit upon anything in Fleet-street during the busy hours of the day, and not be dazed and deafened by two immense processions,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me! — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Our collection of men is very antique, they stand in my list thus: A man of sense, a little rusty, a beau a good… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
“If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“When we don't pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 — John Sandford Copy Share Image
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I had a lot of jobs, because I wanted to be an actor, and I had this bad habit of wanting to eat regularly.… — Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs Copy Share Image
Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
I actually never acted on "Deadwood." I have meetings all the time where people look at my IMDb page and see that I played… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image