Unknown

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

You draw nothing out of the bank of life except what you deposit in it.

Unknown, in Life and Death

You may only have two of the three choices: (1) Enjoy your job. (2)Work within the law. (3)Make lots of money.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

You should emulate your heroes, but don't carry it too far. Especially if they are dead.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

You're a genius if you fly a kite during a thunderstorm, and discover that lightning is electricity -- but you're an idiot if you fly a kite during a thunderstorm, and discover that lightning can kill you.

Unknown, (from Mad Magazine), in Success and Failure

Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder

Unknown, in War and Peace

Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach a man to fish and he'll leave work early on Friday.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

Unknown, in Life and Death

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

The burden is equal to the horse's strength.

Unknown, (The Talmud), in Work and Recreation

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I'll walk carefully.

Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Vice and Virtue

The definition of experience is knowledge acquired too late.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The early bird catches the worm.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

The easiest way to figure the cost of living is to take your income and add ten percent.

Unknown, in Wealth and Poverty

The future belongs to those who dare.

Unknown, in Success and Failure