When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man'sö Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Sergeant's song, The Pirates of Penzance, act 2.

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be thanthisö'devoted and obedient'. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse.It would not do for a policeman.

-Nightingale, Florence
  Notes on Nursing.

On the platform stood a policeman of normal proportions, and instead of a revolver and a truncheon he carried a copy of Ben Hur translated into Irish, which he was evidently studying for an examination important to his professional advancement. MrThewless realised that the imperial might of Great Britain lay behind him and that in front was the philosophic republic of Mr de Valera.

-Stewart,John Innes Mackintosh
  TheJourneying Boy.

A life passed among pictures makes not a painteröelse the policeman in the National Gallery might assert himself.

-Whistler,James (Abbott) McNeill
  The GentleArt of Making Enemies.