Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Confucius
Quotes
51 – sun tzu
If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.
Sun Tzu
#50 – Harris on Religion
A man without faith is like a fish without a bicycle.
Charles S. Harris
#49 – Peter on Advice
You don’t need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.
Laurence Peter
#48 – Smedley B. on War
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
Smedley Butler
#47 – Evan Esar on Marriage
Many a man who falls in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Evan Esar
#46 – Sheckley on Work
The aim of intelligence is to put the whole goddamned human race out of work.
Robert Sheckley
#45 – Take it easy…
Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.
Preston’s Axiom
#44 – Vonnegut on bureaucracy
Mr. Constant, he said, “right now you’re as easy for the Bureau of Internal Revenue to watch as a man on a street corner selling apples and pears. But just imagine how hard you would be to watch if you had a whole office building jammed to the rafters with industrial bureaucrats—men who lose things and use the wrong forms and create new forms and demand everything in quintuplicate, and who understand perhaps a third of what is said to them; who habitually give misleading answers in order to gain time in which to think, who make decisions only when forced to, and who then cover their tracks; who make perfectly honest mistakes in addition and subtraction, who call meetings whenever they feel lonely, who write memos whenever they feel unloved; men who never throw anything away unless they think it could get them fired. A single industrial bureaucrat, if he is sufficiently vital and nervous, should be able to create a ton of meaningless papers a year for the Bureau of Internal Revenue to examine. In the Magnum Opus Building, we will have thousands of them!”
Kurt Vonnegut
#43 Lincoln on Work
My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh — anything but work.
Abe Lincoln
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