Retired Foreign Service

Famous quotes containing the words retired, foreign and/or service:

    “Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “For my name and memory I leave it to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages.”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    “You had to face your ends when young
    ‘Twas wine or women, or some curse
    But never made a poorer song
    That you might have a heavier purse,
    Nor gave loud service to a cause
    That you might have a troop of friends.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)