Being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and sick and stupid to do your job properly, you have to go, where the very opposite applies with the judges.

Let your conscience be your guide.

Briefly stated, the findings are that when presented with an array of data or a sequence of events in which they are instructed to discover an underlying order, subjects show strong tendencies to perceive order and causality in random arrays, to perc

The time spent on any item of the agenda [of a finance committee] will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help the rabbit.

One picture is worth more than ten thousand words.

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

The only happiness lies in reason; all the rest of the world is dismal. The highest reason, however, I see in the work of the artist, and he may experience it as such. Happiness lies in the swiftness of feeling and thinking: all the rest of the worl

None love the bearer of bad news.

"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

Look before you leap.

Never take a resume seriously. Resumes only make money for the people who write the resumes. No resume ever tells an employer how many times a job applicant has had the clap. Why, indeed, would anyone hire a person based on a resume written by a

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

There are no answers, only cross-references.

Think sideways!

Certain passages in several laws have always defied interpretation and the most inexplicable must be a matter of opinion. A judge of the Court of Session of Scotland has sent the editors of this book his candidate which reads, "In the Nuts (unground

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.

To generalize is to be an idiot.