Screw Calm and Get Angry Author:Ebury Press In our current state of economic misery and political distrust, surely there is a limit to just how much keeping calm and carrying on one might be expected to undertake. You may very well find that getting frustrated and enraged might be the only way to get things changed around here.To help you achieve a new state of mild motivation, Sc... more »rew Calm and Get Angry brings together several centuries of embattled and embittered epithets.
It would seem that across the world and across the centuries, there is plenty of evidence to suggest you're not alone in bemoaning the way the odds are stacked:
On Politics: The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly," meaning "many," and the word "ticks," meaning "blood sucking parasites." --- Larry Hardiman
On Work: "By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day." --- Robert Frost
On Money: "The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. ---Katherine Whitehorn
On Business: "Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it, and that's true anywhere in the world." --- Andrew Young
On War: "You can't say civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way." --- Will Rogers
On Life: "If you wake up and you're not in pain, you know you're dead." --- Russian proverb