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"I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (On leaving the Executive office Building)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool." »L. M. Boyd
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"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind." »Malayan Proverb
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"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." »William Shakespeare
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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man." »William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
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"A credit union is not an ordinary financial concern, seeking to enrich its members at the expense of the general public. Neither is it a loan company, seeking to make a profit at the expense of the unfortunates… The credit union is nothing of the kind; it is the expression in the field of economics of a high social ideal." »Alphonse Desjardins, The Canadian credit union pioneer made the remarks in a speech in the early 1900s.
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"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"There are no office hours for leaders." »Cardinal James Gibbons
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"Virtue has its own reward, but no box office." »Mae West
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." »Erma Bombeck
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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were." »John F. Kennedy
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"The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly." »Frederick William Robertson
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"Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God." »Saint Thomas More, upon being executed
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"I hereby resign this office of president of the United States." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants." »Alben W. Barkley, U.S Vice President (1949-1953)
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"I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better." »Harry S Truman
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"No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it." »John Adams
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"The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached." »William Safire
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"The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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"Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post office." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." »Aesop
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"If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States." »H. L. Mencken
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"Things could always be worse for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post office." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office." »David Broder
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"Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love." »George Santayana
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"You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office." »Joe Moore
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"I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso." »Rita Rudner
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"To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office." »Quintus Fabius Maximus
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"You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis." »John Dean
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