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.

February 14, 2025

10 months ago

Whatever else may be shaken, there are some facts established beyond warring; for virtue is better than vice

February 12, 2025

11 months ago

Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go well together.

May 28, 2025

7 months ago

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Page 62 of 63