When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Only the shallow know themselves.

The best theory is not ipso facto a good theory.

最良の理論は事実上の良い理論ではない

マクベスの進化に対するコメント

Enter a contest and be on the sponsor’s sucker list for life.

People will buy anything that’s one to a customer.

When you are over the hill, you pich up speed.

The truth of any proposition has nothing to do with its credibility and vice versa.

It is when you trip over your own shoes that you start picking up up shoes.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

第一幕で壁に銃が駆けてあったなら、最後にその十は発砲されることになっている

チェーホフの法則

A column about errors will contain errors.

The fury engendered by the misspelling of a name in a column is in direct ratio to the obscurity of the mentionee.

Always provide your adversary two options, one of which is much worse than the one you are seeking.

常に相反する2つの選択肢を提示せよ、その一つは自分が探しているものよりもっと悪い

ソロモンの解

If you  don’t throw, they can’t hit it.

投げなければ打てない

レフティ ゴメスの法則

Any putt is straight if you hit it hard enough.

If you want a track team to win the high jump, you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot.

No matter where you go, there you are!

どこに行こうとも、その場所にいるではないか

オリバーの場所の法則

A bus is a vehicle that goes on the other side in the opposite direction.

Never say “wow” with food in your mouth.

口に食べ物を含んだまま「ワオ!」とか言うな

バーバラの法則

When people stay in the middle of the road, they get run over.

Never mistake endurance for hospitality.

Never step in anything soft.

何にしろ柔らかいものには足を踏み入れるな

ピュリアムの基礎条件

If you want to curry favor with a politician, give him a credit for something that someone else did.

Anything is editable if it is chopped finely enough.

良く刻んであるのならば、何でも編集できる

ワイラー夫人の法則

Don’t worry about your enemies. It’s your allies who will do you on.

Following the path of least resistance is what makes politicians and rivers crooked.

A government that robs peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

There is no safety in numbers, or anything else.

If two people agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

No set of mutually inconsistent observations can exist for which some human intellect cannot convince a coherent explanation, however complicated.

Nothing in evolution is without precedent; even the most wondrous adaptation s are modification of pre-existing systems.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.