"Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate."

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Source : Molière, quoting Louis XIV, "Siècle de Louis Quatorze" in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 610-613), 1922.

Louis XIV

#Office Quotes #Political Quotes #Ingrates Quotes

“It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.”
“Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.”
“I never break my journey at Deoli but i pass through as often as I can”
“My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.”
“I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.”
“If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is.”
“I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.”
“On sorrow floats laughter.”

Source : "Dog Years". Book by Gunter Grass, www.theguardian.com. 1963.

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