Famous quotes containing the words generous and/or offers:
“After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.”
—Pierre Corneille (16061684)
“Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I cant make that kind of use of the office.... I cant do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.”
—Calvin Coolidge (18721933)
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