I earn it by enjoying such authorityand prestige that people will not buy expensive Italian pictures without myapproval.

-Berenson, Bernard
Comment on his income, addressed to the Internal Revenue Service. Quoted in The Making of a Legend (1987).

Consult, v.t. To seek another's approval of a course already decided upon.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

When I go to see Herr Hitler I give him the Nazi salute because that is the normal thing. It carries no hint of approval of anything he or hisregimemaydo. And, if Ido it, why should you or your team object?

-Henderson, Sir Nevile Meyrick
   When asked for advice by the England football team in 1938 about giving the Nazi salute before a match in Berlin against Germany. The England team gave the salute, and thereby attracted considerable notoriety at home.