“The committee chair would have killed the bill to teach me a lesson of the impertinence of a freshman introducing policy. Or, if the chair really liked my bill, they'd strip my name off and put theirs onto it, before moving it out of committee. Or I'd have never have sent the bill for a hearing. What wouldn't have happened is for a bill to pass out of committee with my name on it.”
Keeley
“Important lessons are unavoidably taught the hard way. What we can avoid is taking the same lesson twice.”
H Rosano
“If you teach a man anything, he will never learn”
Bernard Shaw
“The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.”
Helen Keller
“Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man”
W. R. Inge
“Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Paulus Aemilius, on taking command of the forces in Macedonia, and finding them talkative and impertinently busy, as though they were all commanders, issued out his orders that they should have only ready hands and keen swords, and leave the rest to”
Plutarch
