Bierce’s Law
Ambrose Bierce
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves and good fortune to others.
Gomez’s Law
Vernon 'Lefty' Gomez
If you don’t throw it, they can’t hit it.
Liebling’s Law
A. J. Liebling
If you try hard enough you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
Walton’s Second Law
Izaak Walton
No man can lose what he never had.
Quelch’s Laws of Executive Hubris
John Quelch
When taxi drivers know the name of a FTSE boss it’s a bad sign.
Stuff his mouth with gold
Editor
Those clamouring for the government to stop paying Sir Fred Goodwin his £690,000 p.a. pension and, in the words of John Prescott (himself the beneficiary of a handsome taxpayer-funded pension), “let him sue”, shoud remember Louis Brandeis’s law. Goodwin’s greed may be sickening, his lack of shame unfathomable, his hubris inexplicable, but one thing’s for sure: the rule of law is worth a lot more than whatever he receives. Goodwin’s contract should be honoured. Stuff his mouth with gold.
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