To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
Oscar Wilde
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Oscar Wilde
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Oscar Wilde
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Benjamin Disraeli
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Thomas Jefferson
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
Thomas Jefferson
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
Thomas Jefferson
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Scott Adams
Morals are private. Decency is public.
Rita Mae Brown
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin Franklin
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
Calvin Coolidge
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefor excused from saving Universes.
Douglas Adams
All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
G. K. Chesterton
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
Lois McMaster Bujold
If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
Anita Roddick
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
Public opinion is a second conscience.
William R. Alger
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S Truman
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
Salvador Dali
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Edgar Watson Howe
I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
Elvis Presley
Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition.
Alexander Hamilton
What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
Richard J. Daley
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
Edgar Watson Howe
We're reviewing the scope of what degree of confidentiality is necessary to protect the pueblos' interest, but to also balance that with the need for the public to be allowed to know what's going on in federal court.
Andrew Smith
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Publilius Syrus
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.
Patrick Henry
We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
Davy Crockett
The company's channel-stuffing and use of manipulative accounting artifices warrants a severe civil sanction that will act as a deterrent for other public companies.
Linda Thomsen
It's very important that patients and the public understand the benefits of treatment and follow-up care - and the risks that will result without diagnosis.
Anna Walker
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
Robert A. Heinlein
This has some implications to developments statewide that developers have to do the proper public environmental disclosure process before they ask permission to rezone or redevelop.
Jeff Mikulina
An off-duty officer should be able to carry weapons anywhere. We're an asset to public safety.
James Duffy
While I was out I did the right thing, by being in the public and being noticed, but I loved to get home and have my little security.
Betty Cuthbert
Look back a few years ago when Cameron Diaz started lobbying for the environment. When she became public about her commitment to preserving the environment, other celebrities soon followed.
Susan Mccoy
The workers in the plant, the public and certainly the victims and their families really deserve to know everything that OSHA found before some of it was traded away behind closed doors.
Mike Wright
A company has to have some type of event, whether it lays off people, whether they recall their IPO (initial public offering). Maybe they're getting sued or an executive leaves. The points are based on the odds.
Philip Kaplan
Any community is faced, and has been faced for years, with the criticism that redevelopment takes place behind closed doors. It is the desire of the mayor and Somerville council to make this as public as they possibly can, so people can have some input.
Colin Driver
The fire district is a political subdivision; the commissioners are the governing body of the subdivision. The list of those who voted is public.
Robert Freeman
With the onset of the aging demographic revolution, it is essential that the general public begin planning for their future care requirements. Unfortunately, most of us pay little attention to the cost of such care until we or our loved ones need it.
Bill Novelli
No one made any motion for this. I guess the Supreme Court decided they wanted to hear this case because of its public interest. I think this is a good thing.
Jim Carpenter
She decided to issue a formal denial through a public notary in the city, but by then it was too late. Nobody believed her.
Mario Gonzalez
Centennial Hall is one of our most public facilities; it was built for the community. We felt that it would be a showpiece.
Gavin Malia
I wouldn't call it insignificant and it was directly in response to public input. While we can't please everybody, we have to serve everybody.
Stephanie Donovan
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.
Henry David Thoreau
We believe that the plan put forth by public officials ensures that the Penguins will have the opportunity to stay in Pittsburgh. What we need to hear from [the team] is a commitment to stay in Pittsburgh.
Abe Naparstek
We're experiencing more calls and more questions, both from the public and the pharmacists, and we're working with each one of them one by one and resolving each one of those questions the best we can.
Peter Demestihas
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
It was a bit of a risk. But we all came to the conclusion it was time to put a public face on this. So I agreed to do the ad.
Dave Penry
We are not the athletic boosters or anything like that. Our goal is to inform the public of the truth behind the school referendum.
Jonathon Mietzner
This project will become the hub of downtown with its easy access to public transportation, new housing and cultural activities.
Paul Marinelli
I don't think people in the general public realize we have so many local soldiers in Iraq, ... A Piece of My Heart is in Iraq.
Lisa Guerrero
I think the message one would hope the mayor would take away from this is that he is not the sole arbiter of standards in public life, that an elected official can nevertheless go beyond what is acceptable.
Jon Benjamin
We think that's sleazy and an unreliable way to fund public education.
Dennis Hartnett
More than corrupting the public trust, these Guatemalan police officials have been Trojan horses for the very addiction and devastation that they were entrusted to prevent.
Karen Tandy
However this turns out, the family history and the things that they've done are still going to be outstanding, ... You can't just throw something over after four or five generations of public service and the positions that they've held.
Ray Henderson
No matter what the Bush administration does, the public is never going to believe they're doing everything they can in the Gulf. That's the box the administration is in.
Chuck Todd
Again, that's something that the public has to wrestle with.
Steve O'brien
Everybody has a different answer. You hardly ever find anybody with the same choice, so we have to be careful with what we do. We have to think this through and cover all the bases. The public might not agree, but you have to do what you feel is the right answer for the benefit of West Indies cricket.
Joey Carew
Truly two extraordinary public servants.
Brenda Davis
There is concern among the public and interest groups as it relates to concentrations of trace chemicals in fish tissue, especially mercury.
Marion Conover
If someone in the public can help us accomplish that, that's our purpose.
Paul Moskal
I'm really anxious to know what resonates with the public.
Roland Betts
This is an opportunity for the public to come and view the cars and trucks without any pressure. They can get in the vehicles, see all the options and we're available to answer any questions they might have.
Regina Sias
It's a very odd time for us. It will be very bipolar, because we have this momentum with the commission and public support in the polls for the death penalty falling, and then we have a Texas-style execution process.
Lance Lindsey
It is not a solution people are wanting to buy into. The main objection is to using public funds for private institutions.
David Aubrey
Failures are very public, and successes are short lived. It's the pleasure of drawing funny pictures that makes up for it.
Bill Watterson
We have simply outgrown our space, and it's becoming difficult to run an expanding public company from Avon, Colorado.
Kelly Ladyga
I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
Al Spalding
I think we will see an exploit materialize either in a test harness or as an actual public exploit within a few days.
Alain Sergile
I'm guess I'm up to about 70% of normal, which is a real relief. My doctor gave me clearance to go out in public again, so I've been able to go to the store and help out a little bit around the house.
Wil Wheaton
Public corruption, as you've seen in New Orleans and Louisiana, is something that has dealt in the past crippling blows to our government to provide assistance.
Jim Letten
Many [public accountants] not only work from home, but they can work from remote islands if they want. A lot of what we do is to go out and meet our clients, but once you've sat down and discussed with them their business plan you can do the actual work from any location.
Joe Bittner
There has to be a much better coordination of public and private efforts so that a lot more of the people who apply are actually eligible.
James Firman
Honestly, we do it because it's fun. Beyond that, it's also the prestige and getting the public excited about science and technology.
Shawn Jordan
People can believe anything that they want. Despite how disorganized it may seem to the all-knowing public, the process went as it should.
Dale Murray
When we did make it public that we were not letting anyone watch any longer, the Filipino fans stopped coming. They respected the decision and knew it was for Manny's benefit. They helped us out and we respect that.
Freddie Roach
Basically they've submitted some additional information to the Department of Public Health that we are going to be looking at so there has been no changes to the allegations or to the violations yet. The status hearing is now set for March 10th.
Melaney Arnold
They didn't hear from the public. I find that to be another one of the leadership problems we have in Deltona. They keep making these mistakes.
Jamie Jessup
I know I'm public enemy No.1, but they were my letters and I'm entitled to sell them.
Glenn Mcgrath
Public notification laws make the public feel better, but they certainly don't target the people who haven't been caught.
Joseph Giovannoni
The 50,000-foot view is just that we were delayed in filing some forms and as a public company, we have to file so the Ontario Securities Commission sent us notices and we've been working on it.
John Fitzgerald
If you're a politician or a bureaucrat, this is a great program to make people feel good and to show that you're doing something to make them safer. But obviously, there's a big difference between what's presented to the public and how the program actually works.
Andrew Thomas
Right now we're focused on public policy and making law. I can't talk about things that are pretty much irrelevant right now.
Margita Thompson
If these were cancer or heart patients, there would be a public outcry.
Richard Kramer
Egregious errors such as these can actually harm the public.
James Pribble
I think we'll be able to go into that in full detail and shed an awful lot of light on their rationale as well as ours as soon as we get this before the public.
Lisa Murkowski
Rainbow Tribe's mission is to use dance as a medium to educate the public on the importance of embracing diversity.
Mary Perry
We have gotten used to this five million people unemployed, and to a public deficit that's 4 percent of GDP, and with a zero growth economy.
Thomas Straubhaar
We have to educate the public on what to do upon receiving the information.
Makoto Saito
Ohio is a public policy powerhouse.
John Bridgeland
The conduct of the defendants shocks the conscience and demonstrates deliberate indifference to the rights, privileges and immunities of the Times Leader and the public.
Ralph Kates
The appointment of an adviser falls outside the ordinary public service appointment framework.
Masiza Mazizi
For too long Tom DeLay has been the subject of a partisan witch hunt by Ronnie Earle and the media that has ultimately led to a distorted public image of assumed guilt.
Mike Conaway
We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.
Tom Bailey
They have achieved some public policy successes in New York. The question is whether their model can work in Massachusetts.
Thomas Glynn
It's a frustration that these letters aren't considered public and so it's difficult to understand what the risks are.
Denise Anderson
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
Matt Blunt
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
William Paley
We need much more effective physician-patient communication to educate the public on screening and early detection and when to have the tests.
Carolyn Runowicz
When you step on the ice, when you get in your car, when you're out in public, every time you step out your front door (players are) so scrutinized. I know that better than anybody. It's not easy to live in this city and it doesn't matter whether you're winning or losing.
Maple Leaf
I don't believe that an arbitration award will in this case necessarily serve the best interest of either the parties or the public.
Richard Curreri
This is a stark reminder that there's no evidence that online sex offender registries increase public safety. In fact, they might just do the opposite.
Allen Gilbert
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
George Mcgovern
The pictures we got, I think, are very good pictures. What we're asking is for the public to take a look, see if they can identify him.
Mary Mulrenan
It's really been a great public-private partnership, ... People don't understand how long it takes to do projects like this. And then you throw the weather in there.
Donald Walker
I'm sure it's harder in public school. I just had to work extra hard to make sure I could play with them.
Malisa Bumpus
This district has been in the forefront of this initiative. We want to have a public event to let people see what we are doing.
Frank Sadeghi
Unless we arrest the wasting decline of our public schools America is destined to be an also-ran in the emerging digital economy.
Lou Gerstner
Derail economic expectations of economic agents, and put public budgets in danger of new imbalances.
Laurent Fabius
This is a fund-raising project for the Decatur Public Schools Foundation and also to beautify the front of Eisenhower.
Judy Taylor
I think that everything remains on the table. We want to hear from the public about what they want to see in the area around the arena, and we'll proceed from there.
Sharon Fearey
This is the court of public opinion -- the idea is to educate the folks in the House of Commons on what is happening.
Clive Stafford Smith
The health effects of the accident were potentially horrific, but when you add them up using validated conclusions from good science, the public health effects were not nearly as substantial as had at first been feared.
Michael Repacholi
Waco citizens deserve to know what ... their hard-earned money was used for. The public also deserves to know what will be required of the defendant dairies as they continue to operate in the North Bosque watershed.
John Cowan
We don't want closed shops. These are open studios where the public is invited in to see how the art gets made. That's the ethos of the whole (NTC Promenade) project.
Alan Ziter
The finance minister agreed that the public sector units cannot be allowed to bleed further.
Petroleum Minister Murli Deora
Once again he is shunning parliament and is failing to report to the public and publicly elected officials.
Chaim Ramon
The thing the public needs to know is that he can never please everybody. Look at him, he has a foundation, he gives money away, and still people get mad at him.
Sean O'hair
The gesture, albeit insulting, had no sexual meaning, did not appeal to anyone's prurient interest, and did not create a public disturbance or breach of the peace.
Harlan Stone
We are taking anybody who is there. We are not asking for any payment. We are essentially bringing a temporary pediatric heart center to them. In their country they have only one hospital, in Lima, that does heart surgery for the general public.
Dr. Juan Alejos
It takes at least an hour no matter where you're going in Miami-Dade County. That is a really an inefficient use of fuel. We've really got to move forward with public transportation.
Colleen Castille
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosalind Russell
We are proud of the strong quarter that we have delivered in our first reporting period as a public company.
Paul House
I know the General Assembly is struggling over the money end of it now. And the governor seems to be more and more convinced in his public pronouncements that tolling a current-day interstate as opposed to new construction is problematic because of the diversion it causes.
Rees Shearer
Our attorney general's office has objected to role because they are assigned to represent various public bodies, and they see it as a conflict.
Charlotte Bergeron
Once they get through the traditional fact-finding period, it is after that point that they would have public hearings into the matter. They will go through the normal course of their investigation, which is the fact-finding period.
Tom Hunter
AP has been fighting for this information since the fall of 2004. We're grateful to have a decision at last that keeping prisoner identities secret is against the public policy and the law of this country.
Dave Tomlin
Students have been informed that if they're walking alone, they can call ... and have public safety escort them. The Atlanta police along with public safety have been helpful in keeping the campus safe.
Debra Miller
Given the fact we're a public agency, we don't find it acceptable to have a loss at all. Our violation system now should serve as a deterrent.
Joelle Mcginnis
The first concern is public safety.
Sandra Kunimoto
Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.
Charles Richter
Each one of the divisions of public safety deal with the public in some form or fashion.
Bill James
Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!
Norma Shearer
When we say there is going to be a private research and a public research institute, that is true. But we expect that the science at the two institutes is going to be very collaborative. Our hope is that it is essentially seamless.
Carl Gulbrandsen
Planning and developing areas where people have accessibility to services without having to depend on a public transportation system is a big need.
Barb Anderson
These guys cashed out big time, made a lot of money by taking their company public. Little did they know or care that they were inviting into the house major private capital investment companies that were going to put pressure on their future management.
Conrad Fink
Housing authorities have never been more broke. Funds for public housing were not keeping pace with demand, even before Katrina.
Linda Couch
I was reminded all over again of how powerful and passionate he was in his beliefs about integrity and public service, and how deeply inspiring he was to people who he came into contact with him as I did.
Richard Blumenthal
It provides a real public benefit on many, many fronts. I really appreciate that.
Dave Feliz
Each year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls.
Marcello Mastroianni
What all of us heard (at Monday night's public hearing) is that the animal shelter is not open enough. I think we need to do a better job of organizing it so that it's more available to the public.
Tony Williams
And the goal is to sample DNA from people all over the world, both indigenous populations and the general public.
Dr Spencer Wells
We believe this will be a great benefit to the public who does not have banking relationships because many child support recipients often go to check cashing agencies.
Richard Narcini
It answers the call from the public to address this issue. It gives law enforcement and prosecutors the tools to address these issues.
Rep. David Litvack
We know he isn't a transit-friendly, labor friendly governor. I hope he hears the public and passengers out there. We will continue to ask him.
Yvette Salazar
The public will be shocked that so many rich governments have given so little.
Phil Bloomer
The good news is that Microsoft has cracked the nut. The bad news is, the more successful they are with making the story public, the more they show that the SAP product line is a reasonable option as well.
Joshua Greenbaum
There are arguments for a public safety risk, but it's not that severe at this point. Right now the government is being overbearing.
Jonathan Massell
The public was appalled by this scourge. Physicians too, von Hutten reported, were so revolted that they would not even touch their patients.
Peter Lewis Allen
There's a rumor floating around that we're misleading the public.
Barry Miller
As a public district hospital, we are committed to providing essential services to the community we serve. No one will be turned away from vital services.
Kathy Nelson
Some of these bills have been before the Legislature before and we get very, very liberal people who kill these bills off, and then we have to go the initiative route. But that could take another year and the question is, should the public not be protected for a year?
Sean Walsh
No retailer can afford to underestimate the importance of good marketing and public relations. Target also comes across as a better corporate citizen than Wal-Mart because it makes it a point to inform people about its efforts to give back to communities.
George Whalin
Our peak flow policy puts a premium on stopping leaks and spills, improving treatment, and increasing public oversight.
Benjamin Grumbles
The idea that legal businesses, which pay billions annually in federal, state, and local taxes, would be excluded from the benefits of disaster relief assistance is the worst kind of public policy precedent.
Mark Gorman
As a person who is involved in public and political activity, I will participate in all these events this way or another.
Mikhail Kasyanov
Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
This is the public piece of the puzzle because they will be public buildings. Whether they stay or whether they go and where they are built is going to be reflective of what the community wants.
Kirk Zoellner
For the first time, you had novels that represented this domain of private feelings and women's lives. She examined how people act in private and how that affected the way they act in public.
Helen Thompson
We started the list with the hope that by making the properties public, owners would step up to bat.
Pat Porter
I also believe the Republican Party needs to learn to govern and develop positive public policy, rather than trying to destroy others.
Carter Casteel
When you don't campaign on foreign affairs, you don't make an issue out of it, you don't create public support, you create problems for yourself down the road politically for sustaining an argument against the Hill for doing anything overseas.
James Lindsay
OPEC is going to look for some behind the scenes compensation from us before they come to some public agreements. They will come to some token increase that effectively legitimizes the token cheating.
James Falvey
It's kind of scary. If someone who has an eighth-grade education can walk in and be a counselor, how in the world is Washington protecting the public?
David Kaplan
They (teachers) have to know, making your classroom public, that's not going to be a negative experience.
Keith Morris
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Getting these two wins against two very good teams really helps prepare us for the Public League race.
Kenny Fullman
This is where innovation begins. It's all part of the same…mission, which is to make space personally accessible to the public.
Peter Diamandis
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Democrats or Republicans ? it doesn't matter ? the fact is it needs to be fixed. If they expect to come home and run for re-election with this mess sitting out there and honestly think the public is going to stand for it, I'd say they were missing their guess.
Lee Graczyk
President Arafat is in control, but President Arafat is not trying and has no interest in stopping the peaceful Palestinian protests against the Israeli occupation. He believes that this is useful because his public is angry and frustrated.
Ghassan Khatib
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
Dr. Willard Gaylin
The revenue generated by this new credit card program will allow the OSBA to enhance services to its members and support public information and education programs the Association undertakes.
Jane Taylor
It may not stop it, but it will shine the light and alert the press and the public to some of these things far earlier than now.
Bob Phillips
The public that I had contact with overwhelmingly wanted a nationwide search. It's going to take a while to explain to the public that we as a board -- the board as a majority -- chose not to do a nationwide search.
Horace Tart
There will also be more information about companies in the public domain, ... But the quality of that information may not be the same as before, simply because companies will be more cautious about what they say to both the buy and sell side.
Louis Thompson
We can't comment about an ongoing investigation. That wasn't on past public record at this point. I have no comment about that. We allege that he broke a number of conditions.
Brendan Conway
A large majority of the U.S. public supports use of red light cameras.
David Snyder
A lot of it is public information, with the days of the Internet. Here's the other way you know it: Know thy neighbor, because thy neighbor knows all.
Stephen Jordan
What we've seen is the loss of democracy as we know it, ... It's poor public policy that somebody loses their seat based upon a fraud.
David Olsen
A lot of boards have chosen to discontinue them totally. Our members decided to continue with the program, however change the name. It's just to get away from the image that the public feels that recipients of the Million Dollar Club are millionaires.
Kathy Roberts
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