[Spridgets] OK, since we are all getting testy here... when insults had class

[Robert Bruce Evans]

Larry Daniels wrote:  Some GREAT quotes!!!!

To which I might add:

I am sitting in the smallest room in the house. I have your review [e-mail, letter, etc.] in front of me. In a moment I will have it behind me.  --Max Reger to the music critic R. Louis

Oh, you miserable villain! What I shit is better than anything you have ever thought!  --Ludwig van Beethoven to the music critic G. Weber about his review of Wellingtons Sieg

I refuse to argue with those I have to educate first.  --Lewis M. Davis

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough.  --Ludwig van Beethoven

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.  --Sir Thomas Beecham

I occassionally play works by contemporary composer for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more, and second to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.  --Jasha Heifetz

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly  --Montaigne

A wise man does not learn from his mistakes. He learns from the mistakes of others.  --RB Evans

Meetings are a visible sign of the failure of an organization.  --Peter Drucker

Meetings are what people do instead of doing things.  --Peter Drucker

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."  --Richard Harkness

Committee - a group of men who keep minutes an waste hours.  --M. Berle

Attitudes dont change unless there is a strong motivation and strong understanding.  --Dick Deihl

Good management adapts and adapts well.  --Dick Deihl

The Navy (or any organization/business) is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, How would I do this if I were a fool? Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.  --Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny