The Curse of the Drinking Class

Image by xjyxjy via FlickrLuck is what you have left over after you give 100%. – Langston Coleman




When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose? – Donal Robert Perry Marquis



Work is the curse of the drinking class. – Oscar Wilde



My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh – anything but work. – Abraham Lincoln



Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. – C. Northcote Parkinson



Times have changed. Forty years ago people worked 12 hours a day, and it was called economic slavery. Now they work 14 hours a day and it’s called moonlighting. – Robert Orben



Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. – Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull

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Image via WikipediaThe finished man of the world must eat of every apple once. -–Ralph Waldo Emerson




For the maintenance costs of one horse, you could send two kids to Harvard. – Mike McGrady



A modern college is a place where 2,000 can be seated in the classrooms and 50,000 in the stadium. – anonymous



“Whom are you?” he asked, for he had been to night school. – George Ade



Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. – Laurence J. Peter



I am still of the opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mind – sex and the dead. – William Butler Yeats


Fathers send their sons to college, either because they went to college, or because they didn’t. – L.L. Henderson

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Quotations Can Damn Anything

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A consultant is someone who takes your watch away to tell you what time it is. – Ed Finkelstein

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat. – Laurence J. Peter

The reason worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. – Robert Frost

Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting. - Billy Rose

Be careful – with quotations you can damn anything. – Andre Maurois

People will accept your ideas more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. – David H. Comins

Dollars and Sense

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Dollars do better is they are accompanied by sense. – Earl Riney

Competence always contains the seeds of incompetence. – Laurence J. Peter

One’s ability to perform a given task competently decreases in proportion to the number of people watching. – Mark R. Frank

If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges. – Charles Boyle

Everyone must row with the oars he has. – Thomas Fuller

As the tempo of a man’s activity steadily increases, it is evident that men must become skilled practitioners of the science of selection. – Philip Marvin

You cannot define talent. All you can do is build the greenhouse and see if it grows. – William P. Steven

Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos

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Between two evils I always pick the one I never tried before. – Mae West

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. – Benjamin Disraeli

There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos. – James Allen

Assumption is the mother of screwup. – Angelo Donghia

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should choose the bolder. – W.J. Slim

He who has a choice has trouble. – Dutch proverb

Decisions rise to the management level where the person making them is least qualified to do so – Laurence J. Peter

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