23 ordspråk av Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Cyril Northcote Parkinson föddes den July 30th 1909 och dog den 9 March 1993 - English writer
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 A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. |
| Delay is the deadliest form of denial. |
| Delay is the deadliest form of denial. |
| Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. |
| Expenditure rises to meet income. |
| Expenditures rise to meet income. |
| In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want. |
| It is better to be a has-been than a never-was. |
| It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow. |
| Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. |
| Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. |
| Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. |
| The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. |
| The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. |
| The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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