What is your favorite Quote or Saying?

[Herness]

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernhard Shaw

 

[/pine]

When two positives make a negative:

"We're from the government and we're here to help" ...Yeah Right...!

 

[WinterDeere]

Government is not the solution to the problem. Government is the problem.
-President Ronald Reagan

This one has probably already been posted in the preceding 702 pages, but it's a good one:

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." -- Ronald Reagan.

 

[BravoXray]

We're from the government, we're here to help you.

 

[California]

We're from the government, we're here to help you.

I used to love to say that when I arrived to audit a construction contractor after a large public works project.

Many Change Orders, for unforseen issues not listed in the contract, are paid on a time & materials basis, subject to audit to verify a real cost was incurred.

No receipts for the $50k of fresh wire you say you bought to replace old at that signal lights upgrade? Sorry, I'll help you draft a revised lesser reimbursement claim that omits the imaginary new wire.

Glad to help. That's what I'm here for.

 

[Hayloft]

RUST
never
sleeps.

 

[WinterDeere]

RUST
never
sleeps.

No... the Mouse Police never sleep!

 

[/pine]

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” – H.L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)

 

[tallyho8]

Now as a followup to the previous post:
Never attribute to malfeasance what simple incompetence can explain.

 

[alexpops]

We have met the enemy, and he is us.