The Yale Book of Quotations

Books of quotations are the hardest to review – because they are so pleasurable! (Will this sentence get me into the next edition?) Your eye alights on a bon mot and, excited, seeks another, and another. From “The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy” (Jane Addams) my eye caught the popular cartoon character, Dilbert (a.k.a. Scott Adams) “The basic concept of the Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management”. This reminded me of the Peter Principle: “In a hierarchy every employee tends...