No silver no service. [ Proverb ]
Proffered service stinks. [ Proverb ]
Service is no inheritance. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A trade is better than service. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Good service is a good enchantment. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Pleasure tastes well after service. [ Proverb ]
Say, what other metre is it
Than the meeting of the eyes?
Nature poureth into nature
Through the channels of that feature
Riding on the ray of sight,
Fleeter far than whirlwinds go.
Or for service, or delight,
Hearts to hearts their meaning show. [ Emerson ]
Be first, that you may be of service. [ Motto ]
Service without reward is punishment. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Is mutual service the bond of friendship? [ William Ellery Channing ]
Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense
Of service which thou renderest. [ E. B. Browning ]
A small demerit extinguishes a long service. [ Proverb ]
Small service is true service while it lasts. [ Wordsworth ]
He that serves the devil hath a hard service of it. [ Proverb ]
Proffered service stinks, (i.e. is not appreciated. [ Proverb ]
My long period of service has led to no advancement. [ Juv ]
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. [ Wordsworth, to a child ]
Religion is not a dogma nor an emotion, but a service. [ R. D. Hitchcock ]
Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value. [ George MacDonald ]
A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service. [ Plato ]
One is very near being ungrateful when one weighs a service. [ Mme. de Flahaut ]
There's nothing so bad as not to be of service for something. [ German Proverb ]
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The chapel is not so little, but the priest may say service in it. [ Proverb ]
A child's service is little, yet he is no little fool that despiseth it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
No better armor against the darts of death than to be busied in God's service. [ Thomas Fuller ]
The brains of a fox will be of little service if you play with the paw of a lion. [ Proverb ]
Can one better expiate his sins than by enlisting his experience in the service of morals. [ De Bernard ]
A favour does not consist in the service done, but in the spirit of the man who confers it. [ Seneca ]
It is a mistake to consider marriage merely a scheme of happiness; it is also a bond of service. [ Chapin ]
We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions. [ Richard Steele ]
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master. [ Martial ]
A state is never greater than when all its superfluous hands are employed in the service of the public. [ Hume ]
Amongst so many borrowed things , I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. [ Montaigne ]
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. [ Burke ]
His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing. [ Lavater ]
Dead is she? No; rather let us call ourselves dead, who tire so soon in the service of the Master whom she has gone to serve forever. [ W. S. Smart ]
Beauty, wit, high birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, love, friendship, charity, are subjects all to envious and calumniating time. [ William Shakespeare ]
Those eyes, soft and capricious as a cloudless sky, whose azure depth their color emulates, must needs be conversant with upward looks - prayer's voiceless service. [ Wordsworth ]
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is, to watch the success of our enemy, to be sure of it. [ Colton ]
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground. [ Johnson ]
If you keep Nature faithfully in view, the example of every thorough master will be of service to you; but if you merely cling to human work, all that you do will be but mannerism. [ Geibel ]
Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears. [ Lamb ]
Whoever can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. [ Jonathan Swift ]
As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern. [ Fielding ]