Away with the chant “measures, not men” – the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. George Canning, British Prime Minister, 1827 (BTW, he died after just 118 days in that office. Nowhere near a record these days...☺)

The facts no longer make contact with the theory which rises above them on clouds of nonsense. The point is not to believe the theory but to repeat it ritualistically and in such a way that truth becomes irrelevant. Sir Roger Scruton, English philosopher.

Keeping your clothes well-pressed will keep you from looking hard-pressed