Paul Dickson Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

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.)

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