Aphorisms

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
Will Rogers

A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.
Dyer

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Unknown

A large, clumsy umbrella is the best protection against the rain: there will be no rain as long as you're lugging it around.
Peter Wastholm

A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Unknown

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
"Fats" Domino

A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.
Unknown

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
George Patton

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Lao Tzu

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
Robert Benchley

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.
Robert Frost

Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
Richard Harkness

Consistency is the final refuge of the unimaginative.
Ray Prince

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Wilson Mizner

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
Unknown

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt