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• He did decide, though, that with more time and a great deal of mental effort, he could probably turn the activity into an acceptable perversion.
  -- Mick Farren, _When Gravity Fails_...
• If a man boasts a great deal about what he is going to do tomorrow, it is timely to check into what he did yesterday!
• An employer was asked to write a recommendation for a worker who was leaving and was not known for putting out a great deal of effort while on the job.
  Since the employer did not want to lie and make this person better than he was, he thought a while before writing anything....
• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...
• adger: /aj'r/ [UCLA] vt. To make a bonehead move with consequences that could have been foreseen with even slight mental effort.
  E.g., "He started removing files and promptly adgered the whole project"....
• Running a project in this office is like mating elepha
  (a) it takes a great deal of time and effort to get on top of things, (b) The whole affair is always accompanied by a great deal of noise and confusion, the culmination of which is heralded by loud trumpeting, (c) After which, nothing comes of the effort for two years....
• Probably no invention came more easily to man than when he thought up heaven. -- G. C. Lichtenberg
• When a New Yorker looks as if he's suntan, it's probably.
• FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth
  he perigee of his eccentric orbit. When David said...