Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

The unexpected always happens.

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.