Public Accounts

Famous quotes containing the words public and/or accounts:

“I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper-weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

“Friendship is friendship, but accounts must be kept.”
—Chinese proverb.