Bierce’s Law
Ambrose Bierce
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves and good fortune to others.
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.
Deighton’s Law
Len Deighton
You can’t make women happy. That’s a kind of fundamental law of the universe. You try and make them happy, and they’ll never forgive you for revealing to them that they can’t be.
Hippocrates’ Second Law
Hippocrates
Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Kristol’s Law
Irving Kristol
Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.
Midas’s Law
John Updike
Possession diminishes perception of value immediately.
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.
Shadwell’s Law
Thomas Shadwell
Every man loves what he is good at.
Shakespeare’s Fifth Law
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
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