Meritorious Public Service

Famous quotes containing the words meritorious, public and/or service:

    “Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “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)