"If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi."

“The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.”

“There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.”

Source : A Book of Nonsense (1846)

“You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.”

“In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity to which the bourgeois should pay homage. This all sounds absurd. But for Russians it is completely normal.”

“The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.”

“Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.”

“At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.209, iUniverse

“The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.”

Source : "Why Continuous Improvement May Need To Be Discontinued" by Ron Ashkenas, www.forbes.com. July 24, 2013.