Guy Browning Quotes

• Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.

  Guy Browning

  People, Important, Tents

  People, 2006.

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• Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.

  Guy Browning

  Book, Mean, Understanding

  "How to... use a library" by Guy Browning, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2003.

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• As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important.

  Guy Browning

  Important, World, Folding

  "How to... fold things" by Guy Browning, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2000.

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• Men love women because they are the loveliest things on God's earth. Women love men because chocolate can't mow the lawn. Some men prefer to love other men. Equally, some women prefer to love other women. There is a word to describe this kind of behaviour. Love.

  Guy Browning

  Men, Chocolate, Behaviour

  Guy Browning (2004). “Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges”, Gotham

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• Major cities are divided into two parts; the bits that are in the guidebook and the bits that aren't. If you don't take a guidebook, you'll see a different city.

  Guy Browning

  Cities, Two, Different

  2002 InThe Guardian, 21 May.

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• What makes a date so dreadful is the weight of expectation attached to it. There is every chance that you may meet your soulmate, get married, have children and be buried side by side. There is an equal chance that the person you meet will look as if they've already been buried for some time.

  Guy Browning

  Soulmate, Children, Expectations

  Guy Browning (2004). “Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges”, Gotham

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• Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

  Guy Browning

  Growing Up, Giving, Growing

  Guy Browning (2004). “Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges”, Gotham

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• People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.

  Guy Browning

  People, Overbearing, Overcompensating

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• To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.

  Guy Browning

  Clothes, Gardening, Ordinary

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