When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.
Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form
A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.