Friends Service

Famous quotes containing the words friends and/or service:

    “Bert McAnny: Now for goodness sake, Green, don’t get me wrong. Why, some of my best friends ...
    Anne: I know, dear. And some of your other best friends are Methodists, but you never bother to say it.”
    —Moss Hart (1904–1961)

    “His character as one of the fathers of the English language would alone make his works important, even those which have little poetical merit. He was as simple as Wordsworth in preferring his homely but vigorous Saxon tongue, when it was neglected by the court, and had not yet attained to the dignity of a literature, and rendered a similar service to his country to that which Dante rendered to Italy.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)