Servant Quotes

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. (Charles de Gaulle)
Money makes a good servant, but a bad master. View quote
Francis Bacon
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door. View quote
Djuna Barnes
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. View quote
William Congreve
The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass. View quote
William Blake
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first. View quote
Thomas More
Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us. View quote
Jef Raskin
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. View quote
Albert Einstein
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. (Christian Lous Lange)
I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign. View quote
James K. Polk
Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. View quote
Ayn Rand
Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master. View quote
Alexandre Dumas, fils
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. View quote
Juvenal
Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master. View quote
P. T. Barnum
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. View quote
George Washington
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and the action fine. View quote
George Herbert
Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. View quote
Francis Bacon
This mutual dependencies no longer the dialectical relationship between master and servant, which has been broken in the struggle for mutual recognition, but rather a vicious circle which encloses both the master and the servant. Do the technicians rule, or is their rule that of the others, who rely on the technicians as their planners and executors? (Herbert Marcuse)
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. View quote
Theodore Parker
So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith. View quote
Jack McDevitt
A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land. View quote
Martin Luther
Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master. View quote
Gretchen Rubin