Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.