There's so little hope for advancement. The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. There is so much sand in Northern Africa that if it were spread out it would completely cover the Sahara Desert. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell. People are always available for work in the past tense. The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent. It's morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money. A .44 magnum beats four aces.