A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.
Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.
Poetry is that which is lost in translation.
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.