Joseph Heller Quotes

Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.

I've spent 20 years in the Army, and I'm just so fiercely proud of being British.

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

Incompetency fed on itself.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General.

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.

These people were not even good burglars. They were bungelers.

The generals don’t know much because they’re not winning,

All I would say is that I have been honored to serve my country for the past three decades and look forward to serving in other ways now that I am retired from the U.S. Army.

Every member of the U.S. Armed Forces knows what they signed up for, and they know what their job is, and they are proud of their job.

I've done my country proud.

I can say with pride that I have a brother who served with distinction in the Indian Army.

I was fairly rubbish as a player.

When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.

We have politicians that are grossly incompetent. We have leaders that are incompetent and we have negotiators that are incompetent.

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

There's bad and then there's EDDY CURRY BAD.