Quotes Library

May 8, 2025

Diplomacy is about surviving till the next century—politics is about surviving till Friday afternoon.

Jonathan Lyn (1943- ) and Antony Jay (1930–2016) British writers, Yes, Prime Minister, vol. 1 (1986), Jay p.235

What your batting average on this score?

Yes, Friday afternoon, when you can get out of town after quietly issuing some bad news press release.

June 17, 2025

8 months ago

As a feast to which all the guests contribute is better than a banquet furnished by a single man

August 19, 2025

6 months ago

Laws are like spiders’ webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but larger things break through and escape.

January 12, 2025

1 year ago

It is a great error to speak of the things of this world absolutely and indiscriminately and to deal with them,

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