Some amusing maxims and quotations

Business

Commercialism is doing well what should not be done at all (Gore Vidal)

A contract is a document that binds the weaker party (Frederick Sawyer)

Civilisation

There is a vast difference between the civilised man and the savage, but it is never apparent to his wife until after breakfast (Helen Rowland)

Civilisation is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort (Jose Ortega y Gasset)

The Clergy

A priest is a man who is called Father by everyone except his own children, who are obliged to call him Uncle (Anon)

Hope

..is the worst of all evils, for it prolongs the torment of man (Nietzsche)