‘Alf Todd,’ said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, ‘has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild-cat’s ear with a red-hot needle.’
P. G. Wodehouse
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.
Henry Kissinger
The English have only one sauce, melted butter.
Voltaire
A blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
Charles Darwin
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
Charles Darwin
A metaphysician is like a blind man in a dark room, looking for a black cat — which isn't there.
Charles Darwin
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