Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.Quote by James Joyce
The number of open service windows at banks, post offices, airline counters, etc... always equals [n/2 - m], n being the total number of windows and m being a random number between 1 and the total number of windows minus 1.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about commerce, numbers, bankers, being
The short cuts are always under construction by the post engineers.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about police
The perfect nurse for the job will apply the day after that post is filled by some semi qualified idiot.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine, perfection, day
Nobody is lazy; they're busy perfecting their posts they will make really soon, which will be totally awesome.Quote by Edward A. Murphy
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.Quote by Thomas Paine about virtue
I've been a fan of Stephen Hunter, film critic at the Washington Post, for some time. I've always found his reviews to be helpful guides to films.Quote by Tom G. Palmer about opinion, hunters, literary critic, film, time
I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.Quote by Joe Pantoliano about press, being
I was a very young journalist with the Yorkshire Evening Post, in Doncaster.Quote by Michael Parkinson
Fort Laramie is one of the posts established by the American Fur Company, who well-nigh monopolize the Indian trade of this whole region.Quote by Francis Parkman about commerce, companies, americans
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels, he can sleep.Quote by Charles Baudelaire about sleep, man
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.Quote by Tennessee Williams about literature, writing, day
I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.Quote by Pierre Cardin about good luck, war
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...Quote by Laurence J. Peter about work, hierarchy, time
The disease - an ineluctable postscript to a letter never sent.Quote by Iulian Boldea about malady, body
What is the talent? Well! this is too easy for us to tell... Then, I will ask permission to the reader for postponing the response to this question. Some opinionsQuote by Ion Luca Caragiale about talent, permission, question
The best job for an author is to be a postman. It has nothing to do with writing, it gets him out in the air, he sees what is going on in his community, he can read everyone’s postcards, and he comes back to his desk refreshed, not weary of words.Quote by Albert Joseph Guerard about literature, air, writing, nothing