Stolley’s Law
Dick Stolley
Younger is better than older, pretty is better than ugly, TV is better than music, music is better than movies, movies is better than sports, anything is better than politics, and p.s. - nothing is better than a dead celebrity.
Temple’s Law
William Temple
No body should make love after forty nor bee in business after fifety.
Tennyson’s Second Law
Alfred Tennyson
In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
The Hart Rule
John Buckley
Anything any politician did with a woman other than his wife prior to May 5 1987 ought to be allowed to go unrevealed.
The Rockefeller Principle
Anon
Never do anything you wouldn’t be caught dead doing.
Updike’s Observation
John Updike
One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.
Vertosick’s Rules for Neurosurgeons
Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
1. You ain’t never the same when the air hits your brain.
2. The only minor operation is one that someone else is doing.
3. If the patient isn’t dead, you can always make him worse if you try hard enough.
4. One look at the patient is better than a thousand phone calls from the nurse.
5. Operating on the wrong patient, or doing the wrong side of the body, makes for a very bad day.
Wells’s Virtual Law
H. G. Wells
The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf. It’s almost a law.
Wolfe’s Law
Thomas Wolfe
You can’t go home again.
Woollcott’s Law
Alexander Woollcott
Anything good is either immoral, illegal or fattening.
