Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. Alvin Toffler An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer. Evelle J. Younger I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Mahatma Gandhi Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948) There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. Henry Adams US author, autobiographer, & historian (1838 - 1918) Instant gratification takes too long. Carrie Fisher US author & movie actress (1956 - ) Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1 US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. Robert Frost US poet (1874 - 1963) Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Gertrude Stein US author in France (1874 - 1946) Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. Joseph Wood Krutch US author & critic (1893 - 1970) The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956) |