If there were a school for, say, sheet metal workers, that after three years left its graduates as unprepared for their careers as does law school, it would be closed down in a minute, and no doubt by lawyers.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their

No one born with a mouth and a need is "innocent".

If you want to know what god thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Men freely believe that what they wish to desire.

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

She ran the gamut of emotions from 'A' to 'B'.

Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy

Better tried by twelve than carried by six.

The Least Successful Equal Pay Advertisement In 1976 the European Economic Community pointed out to the Irish Government that it had not yet implemented the agreed sex equality legislation. The Dublin Government immediately advertised for an equal

A woman who is guided by the head and not by the heart is a social pestilence: she has all the defects of the passionate and affectionate woman, with none of her compensations; she is without pity, without love, without virtue, without sex.

Events are not affected, they develop.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air.

There's no justice in this world.

I'm glad I was not born before tea.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

If a jury in a criminal trial stays out for more than twenty-four hours, it is certain to vote acquittal, save in those instances where it votes guilty.

The last vestiges of the old Republic have been swept away.

Some women should be beaten regularly, like gongs.

There is no proverb that is not true.

Who's scruffy-looking?

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore,

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

A violent man will die a violent death.

The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

Plots are like girdles. Hidden, they hold your interest; revealed, they're of no interest except to fetishists. Like girdles, they attempt to contain an uncontainable experience.

The tree in which the sap is stagnant remains fruitless.

were found to be wearing neckwear that was tighter than their neck circumference. The visual discrimination of the 22 subjects was evaluated using a critical flicker frequency (CFF) test. Results of the CFF test indicated that tight neckwear signifi

The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

I just got off the phone with Sonny Barger [President of the Hell's Angels]. He wants me to appear as a character witness for him at his murder trial and said he'd be glad to appear as a character witness on my behalf if I ever needed one. Needless

"There is no Father Christmas. It's just a marketing ploy to make low income parents' lives a misery." "... I want you to picture the trusting face of a child, streaked with tears because of what you just said." "I want you to picture the face of

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.