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

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.

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

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