(239 quotes found)
“Death, the one appointment we all must keep, and for which no time is set”
Charlie Chan
“The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.”
Claude Pepper
“If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.”
Ross Perot
“Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight”
John Ruskin
“Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.”
Xenophon
“I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.”
Thurgood Marshall
“He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly clean. . . not anything cleared you through the terrifying office of chance; that it is chance and not perfection that rules the world.”
Judith Guest
“I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity”
Sinclair Lewis
“The individual who is habitually tardy in meeting and appointment, will never be respected or successful in life”
Wilbur Fisk
“A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.”
Fred Allen