Knaves suffer fools gladly.
Dec 132018
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Nov 292018
Fame is to be known for one thing: to essay more than one is to court obscurity again.
Oct 042018
Any man who masters the practice of a discipline will be told that he does not understand its theory.
Sep 122018
Stores used to play music to please the customers; they play it now to please the staff.
Aug 292018
It is better to put off a task, and be thought incompetent, than complete it, and remove all doubt.
Jul 202018
We are regularly informed, by people with talent for a discipline, that nothing is required to master it but effort.
Jul 182018
Better than nothing is an exacting standard: medicine has met it only recently, and to many prestigious and lucrative occupations it remains a fond hope.
Jul 022018
Therapist, n. Assistant witch doctor.
Jun 202018
You can never have too many henchmen.
Jun 192018
There is no job so simple that its performance can be measured.