The majority of them give the impression of being men who

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

Author : Alan Brien

Profession : Novelist

Nationality : English

humor, jobs, Social Commentary

Quotes to Explore

Don’t you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

Author : Aeschylus

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Author : Thomas Paine

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

Author : Theodor Adorno

I’m extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Author : Margaret Thatcher

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Author : Mark Twain

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Author : William Shakespeare

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Author : Stephen Hawking

If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

Author : Mel Brooks

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

Author : Thomas Merton

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Author : Virginia Woolf

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Author : Voltaire