Union Civil Service

Famous quotes containing the words union, civil and/or service:

    The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
    —Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)

    We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)