Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

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

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.