Zitat des Tages über Diener / Servant:
It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.
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.
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.
Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.
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.
Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him.
I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.
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.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.
To me, a public servant should have both the grounding and the compassion to carry the common sense and good will of his or her neighbors into the political arena.
I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.
A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our nation's next Attorney General. I know that a lot has been said about Judge Gonzales' life story. It is a story of the fulfillment of the American Dream.
Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.
A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.
A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.
