Robert Cochrane famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.
Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it.
What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

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