"But now I see well the old proverb……" — John Heywood
"But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!"
More Clerk Quotes
- It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. — Bertolt Brecht
- All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that… — Ludwig von Mises
- Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul… — Alexander Pope
- A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. — Albert Camus
- [About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his… — Augustus De Morgan
- Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell… — Thomas Pynchon
- I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor... somebody anonymous… — Ramsey Campbell
- I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest… — Anupam Kher
- This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since… — Albert Einstein
- I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it… — Ulysses S. Grant
- You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being… — Joycelyn Elders
- Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for… — Howard Schultz