He that serves must serve. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Happy is he that serves the happy. [ Proverb ]

And he who serves his brother best,
Gets nearer God than all the rest.

What serves dirt for, if it do not stink? [ Proverb ]

Blood only serves to wash Ambition's hands. [ Byron ]

That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain,
And follows but for form,
Will pack, when it begins to rain,
And leave thee in a storm. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that serves well needs not ask his wages. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Anything serves as a pretext for the wicked. [ Voltaire ]

He that serves every body is paid by nobody. [ Proverb ]

There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries:
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures. [ William Shakespeare ]

Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round,
And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?
No: the dead know it not, nor profit gain;
It only serves to prove the living vain. [ Gay ]

Whoso serves two masters must lie to one of them. [ Italian Proverb ]

He that serves the devil hath a hard service of it. [ Proverb ]

He that looks for a requital serves himself, not me. [ Proverb ]

He serves his party best who serves his country best. [ R. B. Hayes ]

He that serves at the altar ought to live by the altar. [ Proverb ]

He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages. [ Proverb ]

Reputation serves to virtue, as light does to a picture. [ Proverb ]

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. [ Voltaire ]

We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. [ William Shakespeare ]

He is a slave of the greatest slave who serves nothing but himself. [ Proverb ]

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, serves also to moderate it. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and raiment. [ Longfellow ]

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. [ Pope ]

Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days. [ Wm. Browne ]

Each excellent thing, once well learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. [ W. Penn ]

Hope, deceitful as she is, serves at least to conduct us through life by an agreeable path. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Modesty in women has great advantages: it enhances beauty, and serves as a veil to uncomeliness. [ Fontanelle ]

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [ Goethe ]

A lover who is no longer loved is still good for something: he serves to hide the one who has replaced him.

A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. [ Emerson ]

Many benefit by the caresses they have not inspired; many a vulgar reality serves as a pedestal to an ideal idol. [ T. Gautier ]

There is an eloquent silence which serves to approve or to condemn: there is a silence of discretion and of respect. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Nothing can we call our own but death, and that small model of the barren earth which serves as paste and cover to our bones. [ William Shakespeare ]

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavor to the dish; but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage. [ Smollett ]

Life is arid and terrible; repose is a chimera; prudence useless; reason itself serves only to dry up the heart. There is but one virtue - the eternal sacrifice of self. [ George Sand ]

Knowledge of books is like that sort of lantern which hides him who carries it, and serves only to pass through secret and gloomy paths of his own; but in the possession of a man of business, it is as a torch in the hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered, the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare. [ Steele ]

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business. [ Seneca ]