Famous quotes containing the words province, bus and/or services:
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894)
“Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.”
—Terry Eagleton (b. 1943)
“Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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