William Safire

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:49 PM -0600 12/16/00, Gerald Cohen wrote:
>...  As for the specific mistakes that may appear in Safire's column,
>the corrections can always be printed in my _Comments on Etymology_
>(a series of working papers) and then formally in articles compiled
>into books. I believe there's a proverb that goes something like: If
>one door closes, open another.
>And if the proverb doesn't exist, it should.


I remember it (from "The Sound of Music" and other authoritative
sources) as something along the lines of "Whenever God (or probably
something more like "the Good Lord") closes a door, He opens a
window."

larry