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- What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
- Charles Peters
- The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005), Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979
- I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
- John Cleese (1939 - )
- This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- The big thieves hang the little ones.
- Czech Proverb
- The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
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