Quotes by Robert Service

“A Promise made is a debt unpaid”

“My pipe is out, my glass is dry; My fire is almost ashes too; But once again, before you go, And I prepare to meet the New : Old Year! a parting word thats true, For weve been comrades, you and I - I thank God for each day of you; There! bless yo”

“This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall thrive;That surely the Weak shall perish, and only the Fit survive.”

“I haled me a woman from the street, Shameless but oh so fair, I bade her sit in the models seat, And I painted her sitting there.”

“Pitched on his head, and pumped full of lead, was Dangerous Dan McGrew, While the man from the creeks lay clutched to the breast of the lady thats known as Lou.”

“Oh it is good to ride and run,To roam the greenwood wild and free;To hunt, to idle in the sun,To leap into the laughing sea”

“Its a different song when everythings wrong, when youre feeling infernally mortal; when its ten against one, and hope there is none, buck up, little soldier, and chortle.”

“Ah! the clock is always slow; It is later than you think; Sadly later than you think; Far, far later than you think”

There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back—and I will.

To make my body a temple pureWherein I dwell serene;To care for the things that shall endure,The simple, sweet and clean.To oust out envy and hate and rage,To breathe with no alarm;For Nature shall be my anchorage,And none shall do me harm.

Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral system. Freedom could not be begged for: it had to be won.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.

It isnt the mountain ahead that wears you out - its the grain of sand in your shoe.