Errand
A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere.
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Errand Quotations
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Thomas Beecham
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
Red Skelton
The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.
Rutherford B. Hayes
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
Samuel Rutherford
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
Jock Sturges
Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
Ezra Stiles
Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.
Yunus Emre
Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
Olivier Sarkozy
Errand Translations
errand in Afrikaans is opdrag, boodskap
errand in Danish is beretning
errand in Dutch is boodschap, opdracht, commissie
errand in Finnish is sanoma
errand in French is message, commission
errand in German is Besorgung
errand in Spanish is mensaje, mandado, recado
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