Public Records Office

Famous quotes containing the words public, records and/or office:

“Don’t you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)