State Bureau

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or bureau:

    “I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    “Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, “What will you have, sir?” And I said, “A glass of hemlock.””
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)