#waiter

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants? ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#open #own #owning #restaurants #schools

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#beat #company #go #go home #home

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#days #diplomat #down #head #nothing

Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#america #anybody #based #french #headlines