Famous quotes containing the words service and/or charge:
“The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Yet I would bear my shortcomings
With meet tranquility,
But for the charge that blessed things
I’d liefer not have be.
O, doth a bird deprived of wings
Go earth-bound wilfully!”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)