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We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in Work and Recreation

Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Not everyone born in a stable thinks himself a horse.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.

Unknown, (motto of the Dutch Poet's Society), in Success and Failure

Official Project Stages: (1) Uncritical Acceptance. (2) Wild Enthusiasm. (3) Dejected Disillusionment. (4) Total Confusion. (5) Search for the Guilty. (6) Punishment of the Innocent. (7) Promotion of the Non-participants.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Ogden's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

Oliver's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Once you've tried to change the world you find it's a whole bunch easier to change your mind.

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure

One does not make friends, one recognizes them.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

One thing is one thing. Another thing is another thing.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

Only those who do not expect anything are never disappointed. Only those who never try, never fail.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Pardo's First Postulate: Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

People do not resist change -- they resist being changed.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Unknown, in Success and Failure