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Cox's Philosophy: Life's a bitch, and then you die.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Cynics are made, not born.

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism

DeVries' Dilemma: If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want hits the paper.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Death and taxes may always be with us, but death at least doesn't get any worse.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.

Unknown, in Life and Death

"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

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

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

Why bother building any more nuclear warheads until we've used the ones we have?

Unknown, in War and Peace

Wise men make proverbs; fools repeat them.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Women first want to find out what is in your wallet, and second what is in your pants.

Unknown, in Men and Women

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Unknown, (Greek proverb), in Wisdom and Ignorance

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not reached their level of incompetence.

Unknown, (probably a misquote of Peter's Principle), in Work and Recreation

You are not what you think you are, you are not what they think you are, but you could be what you think they think you are.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

You are only young once... but you can be immature your whole life.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

You can tell a lot about a person by looking at what kind of people are his friends and children.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance