Related Quotes
office funeral coffins
The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin. Charles Caleb Colton
office words-of-wisdom castles
... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me. Charles Dickens
office president half
Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking Alan Greenspan
office history thrones
The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by the despotism of the emperors; who substituted in their room a severe subordination of rank and office, from the titled slaves who were seated on the steps of the throne, to the meanest instruments of arbitrary power. Edward Gibbon
office people public-office
I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office. Antonio Villaraigosa
office done casting
Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity. William Shakespeare
offices responsibility terms wives
There are wives who are very involved with their husbands' offices and really take their responsibility seriously in terms of issues and things like that. I was never very comfortable with being part of that. Niki Tsongas
officer
You cannot bribe a Chilean police officer - I know this firsthand. Hector Tobar
office locks use
Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up. If an employee is about privacy, show him or her how to use the lock on the bathroom. Mark Cuban
history disposition efficacy
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Edward Gibbon
history narrative firsts
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. Edward Gibbon
history important difficult
The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to the reader, and difficult to the writer. Edward Gibbon
history miracle doe
The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.... Edward Gibbon
history heaven republic
An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic. Edward Gibbon
history catholic church
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an episcopal vote; and the condemnation of the Alexandrian primate was artfully represented as the only measure which could restore the peace and union of the catholic church. Edward Gibbon
history empires palaces
While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius. Edward Gibbon
history sawdust mills
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. Edith Sitwell
history principles human-nature
History is the discovering of the principles of human nature. David Hume
thrones lefties democrat
Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne. Bob Beauprez
thrones virtue weak
Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground. Charles Churchill
thrones pulpit preacher
I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne Christopher Love
thrones modern sole
Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth. Vaclav Havel
thrones pants
Pants get shiny even on a throne. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
thrones oratory fierce
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. John Milton
thrones married slave
La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne. Honore de Balzac
thrones tubs found
Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne. Francis Quarles
thrones empty
An empty throne always tempts me. Napoleon Bonaparte