The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.