Bestow Quote by Louis XIV

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

— Louis XIV

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

— Louis XIV

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled,…

— Thomas Jefferson

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect…

— Walter Lippmann

The need for an office sort of crept up on me.

— Gary Larson

These office-seekers are a curse to the country; no sooner was my election certain, than I became the prey of hundreds of hungry persistent…

— Abraham Lincoln

I have a great office.

— R. L. Stine

The insolence of office.

— William Shakespeare

I have never used my office for anything other than the purpose in which I hold it - to represent the people who sent…

— Dan Donovan

The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.

— Ray Kurzweil

“...it is all wrong that a person who is going to be deemed worthy of the office should himself solicit it... for no one…

— Aristotle