“If he found out I was sleeping, he'd call the local newspaper, ... That's what he did to my predecessor.”
David Gunn
“I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.”
George W. Bush
“Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.”
Paul Gauguin
“He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence”
Samuel Johnson
“When they were refurbishing buildings, they had no compunction about taking statues of a predecessor and burying them.”
Peter Brand
“OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.”
Ambrose Bierce
