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Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. – P.T. Barnum	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. – Caecilius Statius	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master. – Seneca	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. – George Washington	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet. – Jesse Louis Jackson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf. – Thomas Fuller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. – Max De Pree	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle. – Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Money is in some respects life's fire it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. – P Barnum	added by anonymous 14 years ago
But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. – Matthew 2311, 12 Bible	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Money is a good servant, but a poor master. – Dominique Bouhours	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. – General Omar Nelson Bradley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. – Charles De Gaulle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband. – Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author. – Martin Luther	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Pope John Paul II	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Grant us a brief delay impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. – Caecilius Statius	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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Are you a words master?

(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy

A askant

B flabby

C lank

D ostensive