By virtue of his office.
A dog is obeyed in office. [ William Shakespeare ]
Jack in an office is a great man. [ Proverb ]
Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office; and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Remember'd tolling a departed friend. [ Shakespeare ]
Virtue's office never breaks men's troth. [ William Shakespeare ]
Generous as brave.
Affection, kindness, and the sweet office
Of love and duty, were to him as needful
As his daily bread. [ Rogers ]
They that buy an office must sell something. [ Proverb ]
All things that we ordained festival,
Turn from their office to black funeral;
Our instruments, to melancholy bells;
Our wedding cheer, to sad burial feast;
Our solemn hymns, to sullen dirges change:
Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,
And all things change them to the contrary. [ William Shakespeare ]
An ill man in office is a mischief to the public. [ Proverb ]
The mother in her office holds the key of the soul. [ Dibdin ]
The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment [ Cicero ]
One cannot help doing a good office when it comes in one's way. [ Le Sage ]
The eyes, being in the highest part, have the office of sentinels. [ Cicero ]
Every one is proud of his office, and bids defiance to the scorner. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes. [ Lady Blessington ]
Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not bold, than of the office which one fills. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Dexterity respects the manner of executing things; it is the mechanical facility of performing an office. [ Abbe Girard ]
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body. [ Bacon ]
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? Ay Sir! And the creature run from the cur? There thou might'st behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office. [ William Shakespeare ]
If ever this free people, if this government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this human wriggle and struggle for office - that is a way to live without work. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard. [ Macaulay ]
Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of today. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely to amuse his contemporaries. [ P. G. Hamerton ]
Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries. [ Hawthorne ]
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man - a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object - the wearing of clothes wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress. [ Carlyle ]
The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread. [ Bryant ]