37 Quotes About Clerks

Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

This woman goes into a gun shop and says, 'I want to buy a gun for my husband.' The clerk says, 'Did he tell you what kind of gun?' 'No,' she replied. 'He doesn't even know I'm going to shoot him.

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

The real issue at this point is Joe Steffen confirmed what they have denied all the way through this, which is they were firing file clerks and secretaries to make room for people they wanted to get jobs for, ... They were using those low-level jobs as patronage.

Honduran cooks learn Mandarin. Mexican clerks learn Korean. Most often, people learn Spanish.

The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks,

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!