PAUL DICKSON

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

Language, especially in this country is a daily plebiscite.

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.

Language, especially in this country is a daily plebiscite.

Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named Bambi, Infant, Daisycutter, Grasshopper, and Agent Orange. Nor is the trend new: From the past we have Mustard Gas, Angel Chasers [two can-nonballs linked with a chain for added destruction], and the Peacemaker, to name a few.)

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.