A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.