Feuerbach’s Law of Consumption
Ludwig Feuerbach
Man is what he eats.
Firestone’s Law of Forecasting
Anon
Chicken Little only has to be right once.
Galbraith’s Second Law
John Kenneth Galbraith
The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
Gilbert’s Law of Appearances
W. S. Gilbert
Things are seldom what they seem / Skim milk masquerades as cream.
Gummidge’s Law
Anon
The amount of expertise varies in inverse proportion to the number of statements understood by the general public.
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.
Horace’s Law
Horace
Once a word has been allowed to escape it cannot be recalled.
Hungerford’s Law
Margaret Hungerford
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Irving’s Acute Observation
Washington Irving
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
Kahn’s Law
Alfred Kahn
If you can’t explain what you’re doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.
