A Quote by Roger L'Estrange

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Roger L'Estrange

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Bad Best Fire Good Masters Passions Purposes Servants Water Worst

Quote Author

Roger L'Estrange
English - Author
December 17, 1616 - December 11, 1704

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Aesop

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Aesop

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Words are good servants but bad masters.

Aldous Huxley

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

E. F. Schumacher

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

E. F. Schumacher

Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.

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Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

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With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

Otto von Bismarck

Weapons compound man's power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having no will of their own. Thus we must regard them as servants, not masters - and good servants to good men. Without them, man is diminished, and his opportunities to fulfill his destiny are lessened. An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

Jeff Cooper

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

Woodrow Wilson

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.

John Gay

The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don't care what anybody says. We don't think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.