Related:

• Peterson's Admonition: When you think you're going down for the third time -- just remember that you may have counted wrong.
• You may be redneck... if you think paprika is a third-world country.
• Have you counted your Legos lately?
• Don't change Stevenson just for the fun of rewriting him.
  You can kill a classic with "improvements." A big, sprawling novel, say Bleak House, you have to pare down to a continuity that will hold an audience for ninety or a hundred minutes....
• If you have to think twice about it, you're wrong.
• You can tell it's going to be a rotten day when you wake up to discover your waterbed broke, then you remember that you don't have a waterbed.
• The moment you forecast, you know you're going to be wrong, you just don't know when and in which direction.
  -- Edgar R. Fiedle...
• Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help the rabbit. -- R.E. Shay
• Bunker's Admonition: You cannot buy beer; you can only rent it.