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After all is said and done, a lot more is usually said than done.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

All extremists should be taken out and shot.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

All probabilities are 50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

All the way to heaven is heaven.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score.

Unknown, in Wealth and Poverty

"Political economy" is a phrase consisting of two incompatible words.

Unknown, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace

A .44 magnum beats four aces.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in Work and Recreation

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains knowledge, he is an ordinary man.

Unknown, (Zen saying), in Wisdom and Ignorance

When falling in love, some lose their head, others lose their heart.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

When elephants fight, only the grass gets hurt.

Unknown, in War and Peace

When a man's wife learns to understand him, she usually stops listening to him.

Unknown, in Men and Women