The difference between a
democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take
orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
-Charles Bukowski
An inventor is simply a
fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.
-Charles F. Kettering
Bureaucrats write
memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because
the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
-Charles Peters
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
-Charles Wadsworth
He who asks is a fool for
five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
-Chinese Proverb
One dog barks at
something. And a hundred dogs bark at the sound.
-Chinese Proverb
I hear: I forget / I see:
I remember / I do: I understand
-Chinese Proverb
Asking a working writer
what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
-Christopher Hampton
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