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(Jack) Weinberg’s Credo
Jack Weinberg
Don’t trust anybody over thirty.
(John P.) Kennedy’s Law
All is fair in love and war.
Bayly’s Observation
Thomas Bayly
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Brecht’s Law
Bertolt Brecht
Eats first, morals after.
Carlyle’s First Law
Thomas Carlyle
The great law of culture is: let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Chaucer’s Second Law
Geoffrey Chaucer
Love is blind.
Davis’s Commandment
Elmer Davis
The first and great commandment is ‘Don’t let them scare you.’
Erasmus’s Law
Desiderius Erasmus
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Goldsmith’s Law
Oliver Goldsmith
Silence gives consent.
Horace’s Law
Horace
Irving’s Acute Observation
Washington Irving
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
Lowell’s Law
Robert Lowell
If we see light at the end of the tunnel / It’s the light of the oncoming train.
McLaughry’s Law
James McLaughry
To make an enemy, do someone a favour.
Micawber’s First Law
Charles Dickens
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Oppenheimer’s Observation
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist knows it.
Parker’s Obervation
Dorothy Parker
Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses.
Powell’s Rules
Colin L. Powell
- It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
- Get mad then get over it.
- Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls your ego goes with it.
- It can be done!
- Be careful what you choose. You may get it.
- Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
- You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
- Check small things.
- Share credit.
- Remain calm. Be kind.
- Have a vision. Be demanding.
- Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
- Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Rowland’s Law
Helen Rowland
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.
Rubin’s First Law
Louis D. Rubin
All writers are neurotics, but not all neurotics are writers.
Runyon’s First Law
Damon Runyon
All life is 6 to 5 against.
Saki’s First Law
H. H. Munro
Women and elephants never forget an injury.
Shakespeare’s Fifth Law
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Sophocles’s First Law
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Sophocles’s Second Law
Sophocles
Time eases all things.
Tennyson’s First Law
Alfred Tennyson
‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.
Tennyson’s Second Law
Alfred Tennyson
In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Tilton’s Law
Theodore Tilton
Even this shall pass away.
Vanbrugh’s First Law
John Vanbrugh
Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
Virgil’s Law
Virgil
Fear Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
White’s Second Rule
E. B. White
Never hurry and never worry!
Wilcox’s Law
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Laugh and the world laughs with you; / Weep and you weep alone.
Baker’s Law
Anon
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
Congreve’s Conclusion
William Congreve
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Deitz’s Law of Ego
Alan Deitz
The fury engendered by the misspelling of a name in a [newspaper] column is in direct ratio to the obscurity of the mentionee.
Evans’s Law of Political Perfidy
M. Stanton Evans
When our friends get into power, they aren’t our friends any more.
Franklin’s Law
Gene Franklin
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.
Prescott’s class act
Editor
The words ‘Prescott’ and ‘grapples’ conjure up the most unsavoury of images, involving the former deputy PM and his diary secretary Tracey Temple, so it is a relief - almost - to learn that in his new BBC2 programme the only thing he is grappling with is “political apathy, middle-class syntax, snobbery and the wealth gap in modern Britain”. There is, of course, only one thing to be said about class, and Eleanor Roosevelt said it best. Money, on the other hand, is a more complex subject, with many laws.
Ringer’s Rule
Robert J. Ringer
The results a person obtains are inversely proportional to the degree to which the person is intimidated.
Stendahl’s Laws of Interfaith Dialogue
Krister Stendahl
1. When you are trying to understand another religion, you should ask the adherents of that religion and not its enemies.
2. Don’t compare your best to their worst.
3. Leave room for ‘holy envy’.
The Rule of Invitations
Anon
Twain’s First Law
Mark Twain
In order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
Twain’s Second Law
Mark Twain
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Vidal’s Law
Gore Vidal
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Never say ‘yes’ to any invitation three months away that you would be dreading if it were tomorrow.
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