Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second entry. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

A real person has two reasons for doing anything . a good reason and the real reason. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the first word that stuck in his head. (Quote by - Michael Blake)

Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

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. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)

Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)