"Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore." 

~ Ogden Nash

"Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."


~ Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)*


*author (along with Raymond Hull) of The Peter Principle  


The Peter Principle demonstrates how some politicians get elected to office.  It also applies to certain CEOs whose names are currently in the headlines. 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they will kill you."

~Oscar Wilde

Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet (1854 - 1900)


There's another variation of this quote attributed to Billy Wilder.

"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." 

~Adlai E. Stevenson