"It is a bad plan that cannot be altered."

-- Publilius Syrus

“Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?”

Source : The Spectator, January 15, 1994.
“The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.”
“I will sit here but an hour or two, then leave." I yawn. "So very long as that?" When he answers, there is a wry note in his voice. "I do have my reputation to protect.”
“The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.”
“I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream will become a reality.”
“There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.”
“You've got to be smart to stay in this game. The quicker you learn, the quicker you succeed. You can't make the same mistakes over and over again.”
“Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.”

Source : Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.50, Princeton University Press

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