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Pearl Buck

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Francis Bacon

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and w

Elizabeth Fry

The encouragement of industry and frugality among the poor, by visits at their own inhabitations; the relief of real distress, whether arising from sickness or other causes; and the prevention.

Whoopi Goldberg

This is the Mission Statement of the Brighton District Society (which she created).

George Herbert Walker Bush

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization.

Hubert Humphrey

Life is so unfair that one is more likely to get into some sort of trouble than be rewarded if one attempts to do a good deed; many times one spends time and resources to help someone only to be totally ignored with not so much as a thank you.

John P. Grier

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.

Clare Boothe Luce

...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Harry H. Silvis

(attributed aphorism)

Henry Van Dyke

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Nathan Hale

???I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.???

Clive Staples Lewis

The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.

Elizabeth II

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce.

WORDSWORTH: _To a Child._

Small service is true service while it lasts. Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

Henry Van Dyke

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

O good old man! how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion.

Robert Service

Ah the clock is always slow It is later than you think.

Vincent Van Gogh

How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be

King George VI

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

Rodney Dangerfield

I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.

Rodney Dangerfield

I went to a massage parlor. It was self service.

SHAKS.: _Tam. of the S.,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

The poorest service is repaid with thanks.

Ronald Reagan

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

Latin Proverb

Love is a kind of military service.

George Washington

Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.

Dan Quayle

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Mahatma Gandhi

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

Og Mandino

The only certain means is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Unknown

Serious Sincere Systematic Service Surely Secures Supreme Success.

Benjamin Jowett

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Ronald Reagan

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Ronald Reagan

The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Godfather, The

Don Corleone Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as gift on my daughter's wedding day.

Virginia

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Bill Vaughan

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Robert William Service

Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark.

George Bernard Shaw

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

CHAUCER: _Canterbury Tales, Prologue,_ Line 122.

Ful wel she sange the service devine, Entuned in hire nose ful swetely.

John Locke

I think it every man's indispensable duty to do all the service he can to his country and I see not what difference he puts between himself and his cattle who lives without that thought.

SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act v., Sc. 2.

I have done the state some service, and they know it. No more of that; I pray you in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice.

Charles De Gaulle

As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

Harrison Ford

On being an actor .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

John Quincy Adams

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Robert Service

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Maybe you are the cool generation ... If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Elizabeth Berg

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

Anon.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away. When I am gone, I hope it can be said of me that I plucke

Oren Arnold

Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

Lawton Chiles

We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Under the general name of Commodity, I rank all those advantages which our senses owe to nature. This, of course, is a benefit which is temporary and mediate, not ultimate, like its service to the soul. Yet although low, it is perfect in its kind, and is

Richard Milhous Nixon

The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service.

W. Edwards Deming

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

Harriet Du Autermont

No vision and you perish No Ideal, and you're lost Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.

Steven Wright

I saw a sign at a gas station. It said "help wanted". There was another sign below it that said "self service". So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.

Nathan Hale

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

...I'm sorry, Reality is not in service at this time.

The end of all education should surely be service to others.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

'Glad to be of service!' - Sirius Cybernetics Door

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

"Assassination is the highest form of public service.

Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

National Health Insurance: The compassion of the IRS The efficiency of the Postal Service All at Pentagon prices!!!!

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.

The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.

America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual p

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

"I am Juan Sanchez Villa Lobos Ramirez, and I'm at your service."

"I am Bjorn of Borg. Wimbledon is <FIRST SERVICE!> <ahem> irrelevant."

"Glad to be of service." - a door, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy

"Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt." -new Postal Service motto -Leno

"Room Service? This thing's `childproof.' Send up a child!"

"No Shirt. No Shoes. No Service." Hmm, I guess pants are optional.

The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.

To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.

"He had lots of guts." - 007 (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)

"2 signs in a gas station window: Help wanted, Self service." - s.w.

"From this time forward, you will service...US!" Locutus/Picard

"I read it from a Russian translation of one of your service manuals."

"I will renew you for happier service." - Sh'tk'ith (Bluescale)

"Dirty Boy and Service Master are calling..." -- Tom Servo

"The food's great, but the service STINKS!" - Yakko

"P*****Y Sucks!" (censored by your friendly Prodigy service)

"Terrific of Frank to put all that stuff in our service records."-BJ

"If the food don't kill you, the service will!"-Freddy Krueger

"The service here is great, even in a fight!" -- Crow T. Robot

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

"Sunday Service" By Neil Downe

"Your service honors us, Captain." Sarek

"What is a relay service for the deaf means??"

Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.

"I am @FN@ Sanchez Villa Lobos @LN@, and I'm at your service."

"This has been a public service announcement..." - The Mask

"Hey! No Shoes. No Brain. No Service, Lady!"

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.