Office

(187 votes)   A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

Fred A. Allen
1894-1957, American Radio Comic

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(182 votes)   Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(175 votes)   When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer

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(168 votes)   He [Robert Benchley] and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

Dorothy Parker
1893-1967, American Humorous Writer

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(146 votes)   We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(143 votes)   A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Richard M. Nixon
1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA

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(137 votes)   Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(127 votes)   If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

Frank Moore Colby
1865-1925, American Editor, Essayist

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(121 votes)   Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!

Ogden Nash
1902-1971, American Humorous Poet

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(113 votes)   You don't have power if you surrender all your principles -- you have office.

Ron Todd

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(109 votes)   Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

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