| Author |
Quotes |
| Ouida | Petty laws breed great crimes. |
| Paul Dickson | Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train. |
| Paul Dickson | About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. |
| Paul Dickson | Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. |
| Paul Dickson | A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. |
| Paul Dickson | A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. |
| Paul Dickson | A free agent is anything but. |
| Paul Dickson | A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason. |
| Paul Dickson | A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable. |
| Paul Dickson | Abbott's Admonitions: If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question. |
| Paul Dickson | Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. |
| Paul Dickson | Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem. |
| Paul Dickson | Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer. |
| Paul Dickson | Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. |
| Paul Dickson | Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen. |
| Paul Dickson | Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
| Paul Dickson | Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second entry. |
| Paul Dickson | Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired. |
| Paul Dickson | Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. |
| Paul Dickson | Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time. |
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