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I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.

Joshua Lederberg

Work

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

The public seldom forgive twice.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Public

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

James Larkin

Public

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

Joseph Lancaster

Public

Schools

The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.

A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.