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Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the first word that stuck in his head.

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.

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

A free agent is anything but.

A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

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.

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

Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen.

Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second entry.

Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.