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(Hiram) Johnson’s Law
Hiram Johnson
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
(John F.) Kennedy’s Law
John F. Kennedy
Life is unfair.
Archilochus’s Distinction
Archilochus
The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
Behn’s Law
Aphra Behn
Here today, gone tomorrow.
Bentham’s Law
Jeremy Bentham
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Bierce’s Law
Ambrose Bierce
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Billings’s Third Law
Josh Billings
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of demand.
Burns’s Law
Robert Burns
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley.
Byron’s Law
Byron
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Camus’s Regretful Conclusion
Albert Camus
Cervantes’s Law of Statistics
Miguel de Cervantes
By a small sample, we may judge of the whole piece.
Chaucer’s First Law
Geoffrey Chaucer
Time heals all wounds.
Connolly’s Observation
Cyril Connolly
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Conran’s Law of Cooking
Shirley Conran
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
Descartes’ Dictum
René Descartes
I think therefore I am (Cogito ergo sum).
Disraeli’s Second Law
Benjamin Disraeli
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
Emerson’s Third Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The efforts which we make to escape our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
Euripides’ First Law
Euripides
There is no wind that always blows a storm.
Euripides’ Third Law
Euripides
The lucky person passes for a genius.
Finnegan’s Law
Anon
The further away the future is the better it looks.
Gilbert’s Law of Appearances
W. S. Gilbert
Things are seldom what they seem / Skim milk masquerades as cream.
Gumperson’s Law
R. F. Gumperson
The contradictory of a welcome probability will assert itself whenever such an eventuality is likely to be most frustrating, or, in other words, the outcome of a given desired probability will be inverse to the degree of desirability.
Haldane’s Observation
J. B. S. Haldane
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
Heraclitus’s Law
Heraclitus
You can’t step twice into the same river, for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Herodotus’s Law
Herodotus
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Hippocrates’ Second Law
Hippocrates
Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Holmes’s First Law
Sherlock Holmes
Eliminate all other factors and the one which remains will be the truth.
Holmes’s Second Law
Sherlock Holmes
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.
Kant’s Categorical Imperative
Emanuel Kant
Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time wish that it should become a universal law.
La Rochefoucauld’s Rule
François La Rochefoucauld
In the misfortunes of our best friends we find something that is not displeasing.
Lowell’s Law
Robert Lowell
If we see light at the end of the tunnel / It’s the light of the oncoming train.
Macaulay’s Maxim
Thomas Babington
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Mencken’s Law of Social Reform
H. L. Mencken
Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretence of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
Mencken’s Second Law
H. L. Mencken
Nine times out of ten in the arts, as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
Micawber’s Second Law
Charles Dickens
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
Montagu’s Motto
Mary Wortley Montagu
General notions are generally wrong.
Montaigne’s Law
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
Napoleon’s Law
Napoleon Bonaparte
From the sublime to the ridiculous, there is only one step.
Norris’s Law
Anne Norris
If you know the answer, then you don’t know the question.
Ockham’s Razor
William of Ockham
Do not assume more causes for any phenomenon than are absolutely necessary to explain it.
Pareto’s Law
Vilfredo Pareto
Twenty percent of the customers account for eighty percent of the turnover; twenty percent of the components account for eighty percent of the cost etc.
Parson Weems’s Law
Mason Locke Weems
Historical fancy is more persistent than historical fact.
Pascal’s Law
Blaise Pascal
The greater the intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no differences between men.
Quincy’s Law
Josiah Quincy Jr.
Man passes away; generations are but shadows; there is nothing stable but truth.
Reuther’s Law
Walter Reuther
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it just may be a duck.
Runyon’s First Law
Damon Runyon
All life is 6 to 5 against.
Service’s Law
Robert W. Service
It’s later than you think.
Socrates’s Law
Socrates
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
Sophocles’s Second Law
Sophocles
Time eases all things.
The Dixon Effect
John Allen Paulos
If you make enough predictions a few are bound to be correct. The hits are likely to be remembered, the misses forgotten, and you will win fame and possibly fortune as a forecaster of the future.
Thoreau’s Ruling
Henry David Thoreau
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
Tilton’s Law
Theodore Tilton
Even this shall pass away.
Torquemada’s Law
Tomás de Torquemada
When you are right you have a moral duty to impose your will upon anyone who disagrees with you.
Udall’s Law
Morris K. Udall
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.
Valéry’s Law
Paul Valéry
That which has always been accepted by everyone everywhere is almost certain to be false.
Webster’s Axiom
John Webster
‘Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
Wesley’s Law
John Wesley
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
White’s Second Rule
E. B. White
Never hurry and never worry!
Wittgenstein’s Law
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Of that which nothing is known, nothing can be said.
Wolfe’s Law
Thomas Wolfe
You can’t go home again.
Bartz’s Law of Hokey Horsepuckery
Wayne R. Bartz
The more ridiculous a belief system, the higher the probability of its success.
Fuller’s Observation
Thomas Fuller
It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.
Hofstadter’s Law
Douglas R. Hofstadter
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s law.
Lynn’s Observation on Religious Belief
Richard Lynn
Clever people are atheists. Cleverer people aren’t.
Rickey’s Law
Branch Rickey
Luck is the residue of design.
Shakespeare’s Second Law
William Shakespeare
Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.
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 Ashley-Perry Statistical Axioms
G. O. Ashley
1. Numbers are tools, not rules.
2. Numbers are symbols for things; the number and the symbol are not the same.
3. Skill in manipulating numbers is a talent, not evidence of divine guidance.
4. Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.
5. The product of an arithmetical computation is the answer to an equation; it is not the solution to a problem.
6. Arithmetical proofs of theorems that do not have arithmetical bases prove nothing.
2. Numbers are symbols for things; the number and the symbol are not the same.
3. Skill in manipulating numbers is a talent, not evidence of divine guidance.
4. Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.
5. The product of an arithmetical computation is the answer to an equation; it is not the solution to a problem.
6. Arithmetical proofs of theorems that do not have arithmetical bases prove nothing.
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