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

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

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

The more you know, the less you need to show.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

There are two types of dirt: the dark kind, which is attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is attracted to dark objects.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The more you know, the less you think you know.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The more you put into life, the less you will get.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

The most important thing a father can do for his children is love their mother.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

The most undependable part on your car is the nut holding the wheel.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.

Unknown, in Life and Death

The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest ways of suffering, and the most comfortable ways of dying.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

The secret to life is that there is no secret.

Unknown, in Life and Death

The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.

Unknown, in Success and Failure