Services Southern Cross

Famous quotes containing the words services, southern and/or cross:

    “Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,—or enemies,—or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.”
    —Carolyn Wells (1862?–1942)

    “In ancient times—’twas no great loss—
    They hung the thief upon the cross:
    But now, alas!—I say’t with grief—
    They hang the cross upon the thief.”
    —Anonymous. “On a Nomination to the Legion of Honour,” from Aubrey Stewart’s English Epigrams and Epitaphs (1897)