Let my right hand forget her cunning - Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.
- Old Testament,Psalms -
You depend upon it,the more oath taking, the more lying generally among the people.
- Coleridge,Table talk -
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
- Aeschylus -
Obedience alon gives the right to command.
- Emerson -
Let them obey that know not how to rule.
- Shakespeare -
An extraordinery haste to discharge an obligation is a sort of ingratitude.
- Rochefoucauld -
Men who lived and died without name, Are the chief heroes in the sacred list of fame.
- Swift,To the Athenian Society -
Some are more strongly affected by the facts of human life,others by the beauty of earth and sky. Men are born with two eyes but with one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
- C.C.Colton,Lacon -
Eagh one sees what he carries in his heart.
- Geothe -
Where obstinacy takes his study stand. To disconcert what Policy has planned.
- Cowper,Expostulation -
There are few,Very few,that will own themselves in a mistake.
- Swift -
Absence of occupation is not rest. A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
- Cowper,Retirement -
The busy have no time for tears.
- Byron -
A man who has no office to go to- I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception.
- G.B.Shaw,Irrational Knot -
Occupation is the scythe of time.
- Nepolean -
Roll on;thou deep and dark-blue occean,roll!
- Byron,childe Harold -
Five of things are requisite to a good officer - ability,clean hands,despatch,patience and impartiality.
- Penn -
Public office is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Rose -
Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.
- Montaigue -
