
“The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.”
Holidays in Hell (1989)
Source: The Godfather
“The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.”
Holidays in Hell (1989)
Of Negotiating
Essays (1625)
Context: If you would work any man, you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him; or his ends, and so persuade him or his weakness and disadvantages, and so awe him or those that have interest in him, and so govern him. In dealing with cunning persons, we must ever consider their ends, to interpret their speeches; and it is good to say little to them, and that which they least look for. In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
Herbert N. Casson cited in: Forbes magazine (1950) The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life. p. 236
1950s and later
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 1-10, p. 13
Referring to his former Cabinet colleague Dr Michael Bassett, who was delivered by his Doctor father.
Source: David Lange, My Life (2005), p. 98
Vote, vote, vote for Nigel Barton (1965)