cynical folk wisdom

[Jonathan Lighter]

I was searching for the earliest appearance of the observation that
"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool" and found this
website of phrases said to have been read on bumper stickers:

http://www.hilliard.ws/bumstick.htm

There are pther such sites.

And cf. "Make it idiot-proof and someone will invent a better idiot."

JL



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