Avoir sa belle-mère en province quand on demeure à Paris, et vice versa, est une de ces bonnes fortunes qui se rencontrent toujours trop rarement.
Part III, Meditation XXV: Allies, Section II: Of the Mother-in-Law.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)
Charles Erwin Wilson (1890–1961) American secretary of Defence
The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country. Our contribution to the nation is considerable.
Charles E. Wilson (1952) in: Confirmation hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee, responding to Sen. Robert Hendrickson's question regarding conflicts of interest. Quoted in Safire's Political Dictionary (1978) by William Safire.
Charles Erwin Wilson (1890–1961) American secretary of Defence
Charles E. Wilson (1952) in: Confirmation hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee, responding to Sen. Robert Hendrickson's question regarding conflicts of interest. Quoted in Safire's Political Dictionary (1978) by William Safire.
“Too fucking busy, and vice versa.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Response to an editor pressuring her for overdue work, as quoted in The Unimportance of Being Oscar (1968) by Oscar Levant, p. 89
“When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Quand le despotisme est dans les lois, la liberté se trouve dans les mœurs, et vice versa.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part I: The Talisman
“A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.”
Stephen Potter (1900–1969) British writer
One-Upmanship (1952) ch. 14
On wine-tasting.
“It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.”
Joan Robinson book An Essay on Marxian Economics
Source: An Essay on Marxian Economics (Second Edition) (1966), Chapter VIII, The General Theory of Employment, p. 66
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954) 12th President of Turkey from 2014
As quoted in "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: ‘women not equal to men’" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/24/turkeys-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-women-not-equal-men, The Guardian (November 24, 2014)
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Source: A Bachelor's Establishment (1842), Ch. IX.
Context: There are two species of timidity, — the timidity of the mind, and the timidity of the nerves; a physical timidity, and a moral timidity. The one is independent of the other. The body may fear and tremble, while the mind is calm and courageous, or vice versa. This is the key to many moral eccentricities. When the two are united in one man, that man will be a cipher all his life.
Yakov Frenkel (1894–1952) Russian physicist
as quoted [Viktor Yakovlevich Frenkel, Yakov Ilich Frenkel: his work, life, and letters, Birkhäuser, 1996, 3764327413, 25-26]
