A Rat May Drown a Nation

Image via WikipediaPerseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent: beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall. – Sydney Harris




I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back. – Abraham Lincoln



When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems ou could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe



One may go a long way after one is tired. – French proverb



Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation. – Edmund Burke



‘Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and obstinacy is a bad one. – Laurence Sterne

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Eating Without Degesting is Like Reading Without Reflecting

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Some people read because they are too lazy to think. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg



If you believe everything you read, better not read. – Japanese proverb



Reading made Don Quixote a gentelman, but believing what he read made him mad. – George Bernard Shaw



My brother cuts the time it takes to read a newspaper by skipping everything in the future tense; and it’s amazing what he doesn’t miss.



Reading means borrowing. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg



Integrity is the thing which keeps you from looking ahead to see how the story ends. – Jacob M Braude



Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

A Blind Date with Knowledge

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What is research but a blind date with knowledge. – Will Henry




Successful research impedes further successful research. – Keith J. Pendred



If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. – Sir Peter Medawar



Prosperity and obsolescence are absolutely tied together, and obsolescence makes prosperity. A research organization is the originator of obsolescence. – Charles F. Kettering



Long range planning does not deal with future decisions but with the future of present decisions. – Peter F. Drucker



An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected. – Sir Alan Patrick Herbert



You can never plan the future from the past. – Edmund Burke

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There are Some Things that Rats just Won’t Do

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The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. – William Shakespeare

Bulls do not win bull fights.
People do.
People do not win people fights.
Lawyers do. - Norman R. Augustine

A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself. – Lord Henry Peter

The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer. – Henry Kissinger

There are three reasons why lawyers are being used more and more in scientific experiments. First, every year there are more and more of them around. Second, lab assistants don’t get attached to them. And, third, there are some things that rats just won’t do. – anonymous

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke

A peasant between two lawyers is a fish between two cats. – Spanish proverb

The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost always be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. – Will Rogers

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